Villagers of Qeleth at the new church bell's inauguration, 1949

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Villagers of Qeleth at the new church bell's inauguration, 1949

Place
Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date
1949

A crowd of villagers, women in patterned dresses and headscarves, men in caps and children in front, in the village of Qeleth (Dibek) in Tur Abdin. The archive says American missionaries took the picture in 1949 at the inauguration of the new bell of the village's Syriac Protestant church.

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Source

Arameandom.org, Aramean Archive (community archive)