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Women line the street for Patriarch Aphrem I Barsoum's visit, Aleppo, 1953

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1953

Women and girls in a long row along Souk El-Khadra Street during the visit of Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum to St George's Church in the Syriac Quarter in 1953.

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

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Women line the street for Patriarch Aphrem I Barsoum's visit, Aleppo, 1953

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