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Syriac Orthodox monk at the monastery of Mar Mattai, about 1924

Place: Mar Mattai · today Iraq
Date: 1920s

A Syriac Orthodox ("Jacobite") monk sits on a carpet-covered bench in front of the terraced, cave-cut buildings of the monastery of Mar Mattai on Mount Maqlub. Plate IX of Harry Luke's Mosul and Its Minorities (1925).

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Luke, Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), via Internet Archive

Harry Charles Luke (author; most photographs his own) · Published 1925; public domain in the US.

Syriac Orthodox monk at the monastery of Mar Mattai, about 1924

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