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Pupils of Qasha Yosip Dekelaita's Assyrian school in Mosul

Place: Mosul · today Iraq

Well over a hundred boys and their teachers pose in tiers in a courtyard of the Assyrian school founded in Mosul by the priest Yosip Dekelaita (1869-1952). Undated; likely the 1920s or 1930s.

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Internet Archive (subject assyrian-archive; scans from S. S. Solomon, The Indestructible Assyrians, 2010)

Pupils of Qasha Yosip Dekelaita's Assyrian school in Mosul

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