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

Place: Diyarbakir · today Türkiye
Date: 1909

A priest and men stand in the arcaded courtyard of the Church of El Hadra (the Virgin) in Diyarbakir, with tombs in the foreground. Likely the Syriac Orthodox church of the Virgin Mary.

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Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

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

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

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