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Monastery of Mar Behnam across the plain, autochrome, 1927

Place: Mar Behnam · today Iraq
Date: 1927

Autochrome of the fortress-like monastery of Mar Behnam seen across the plain, captioned by the archive as a site of the Eastern Catholic church, with a church of the late fifth century restored in the twelfth. 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

Monastery of Mar Behnam across the plain, autochrome, 1927

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