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

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

Place: Baghdad · today Iraq
Date: 1960s

Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim (third from left) with Metropolitan Mar Yousip Khnanisho and Bishop Mar Esho Sargis at the opening of the Assyrian Church of the East's Mar Zayya church in Baghdad; the source dates it to the 1960s, and Qasim was in office until February 1963.

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