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

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

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1973

A large crowd fills the street outside St George's Church in Aleppo for the funeral of the Syriac Orthodox priest Fr. Habib Tokhmeji, around 1973.

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urhoy1924.com (Syriac community of Aleppo; many prints watermarked Qenshrin.com), via Wikimedia Commons

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