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Courtyard of the church of Mar Behnam, autochrome, 1927

Place: Mar Behnam · today Iraq
Date: 1927

Autochrome of the courtyard of the monastery church of Mar Behnam near Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), with two men standing by its arched recesses and a well. Frédéric Gadmer, 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

Courtyard of the church of Mar Behnam, autochrome, 1927

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