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Two monks at the gate of the new monastery of Rabban Hormizd, Alqosh, 1897

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Two monks at the gate of the new monastery of Rabban Hormizd, Alqosh, 1897

Place: Alqosh · today Iraq
Date: 1897

Two monks in black habits stand in the richly carved stone gateway captioned "Eingangsthor des neuen Klosters von Rabban-Hormis" (gate of the new monastery of Rabban Hormizd), the Chaldean monastery near Alqosh. From Vom Kaukasus zum Persischen Meerbusen (1897), the German edition of Müller-Simonis's travel account.

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