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Syriac Catholic monks and pupils at the monastery of Mar Behnam, about 1924

Place: Mar Behnam · today Iraq
Date: 1920s

Robed Syriac Catholic monks stand in a line with boys and young men in front of the arched doorways of the monastery of Mar Behnam near Qaraqosh. Plate X 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 Catholic monks and pupils at the monastery of Mar Behnam, about 1924

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