PhotographAA-0319

Priest by the carved font of Mar Yuhanna church, Qaraqosh, 1909

Place: Qaraqosh · today Iraq
Date: 1909

A priest in a dark robe and a man in white stand beside the carved stone font of the church of Mar Yuhanna in Qaraqosh, photographed by Gertrude Bell in May 1909.

Do you recognize someone or something here?Names, places and family stories help us describe this photo properly.

Source

Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian · CC BY-SA 4.0 (rights holder: "No known copyright restrictions")

Priest by the carved font of Mar Yuhanna church, Qaraqosh, 1909

Source

More like this

Priest and men at the Church of the Virgin (El Hadra), Diyarbakir, 1909

Elderly priest with an illuminated gospel at Mor Philoxenos, Midyat, 1909

Monk before the bishop's tower of Mor Yuhanon Tayoyo, 1909

Mor Gabriel monastery, south door, Tur Abdin, 1909

Abd al-Karim Qasim at the opening of Mar Zayya church, Baghdad

Crowd at the funeral of Fr. Habib Tokhmeji, Aleppo, 1973

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

Priest in the church of the Virgin (El Adra), Silvan, 1911

St. Mary's church at Urmia with its clergy and Bishop Mar Elia

Xi'an Stele side rubbing with Syriac and Chinese names of clergy

Metropolitan Isaac Khnanisho and Rabban Yonan, Qudshanis, 1886

Rabban Yonan in the courtyard of Mar Shalita, Qudshanis, 1886