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Archbishop of Canterbury's missionaries in academic dress at Qudshanis, 1912

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1912

Four men of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrians, three in gowns and mortarboards, photographed at Qudshanis; AINA names them as Donald MacGillivray, Read, Bernand and Spiring.

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AINA (Assyrian International News Agency), "Pictures of Assyrian Villages in Turkey in 1912" (scans by George Slyvus; captions by Nicholas al-Jeelo)

Sergei Petrovich Olferiev (1875-1942), Russian vice-consul at Van

Archbishop of Canterbury's missionaries in academic dress at Qudshanis, 1912

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