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Three monks of Rabban Hormizd monastery, 1970

Place: Alqosh · today Iraq
Date: 1970

Three monks in black stand in the courtyard of the Rabban Hormizd monastery in the mountains above Alqosh, beneath a tall pointed arch, in 1970. A colour photograph.

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Assyrian Archive (@ArchiveAssyria on X; assyrianarchive.ca), via Wikimedia Commons

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Three monks of Rabban Hormizd monastery, 1970

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