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Mar Mattai monastery on Mount Alfaf, autochrome, 1927

Place: Mar Mattai · today Iraq
Date: 1927

Autochrome of the courtyards, arcades and stairways of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mar Mattai, built into the face of Mount Alfaf (Maqlub) east of Mosul. Photographed by Frédéric Gadmer for the Archives de la Planète, 7 May 1927.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Musée départemental Albert-Kahn, Archives de la Planète)

Frédéric Gadmer · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mar Mattai monastery on Mount Alfaf, autochrome, 1927

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