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Monastery of Rabban Hormizd above Alqosh, 1909

Place: Alqosh · today Iraq
Date: 1909

The Chaldean monastery of Rabban Hormizd built into the cliffs above Alqosh, with its gate and path and a few men nearby, photographed by Gertrude Bell in May 1909. Her pencil caption "Rabban Hormuzd" is on the print.

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Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

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

Monastery of Rabban Hormizd above Alqosh, 1909

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