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Walls of Mar Mattai monastery, autochrome, 1927

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Walls of Mar Mattai monastery, autochrome, 1927

Place
Mar Mattai · today Iraq
Date
1927
Church

Autochrome of the long outer walls of the monastery of Mar Mattai on the slope of Mount Alfaf, near Mosul. Frédéric Gadmer, 7 May 1927.

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Source

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

Frédéric Gadmer · CC BY-SA 4.0

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