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Assyrian (Nestorian) church with an outside stair, Ali Khan Vali album

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1880s

Brick church captioned 'Assyrian (Nestorian) Church' in Ali Khan Vali's album: a tall tower with a pointed-arch doorway and an outside staircase rising to a balcony where a figure stands. The album page does not name the town.

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Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, Special Collections (Ali Khan Vali Photograph Album, on loan)

Ali Khan Vali (1845/1846-1902)

Assyrian (Nestorian) church with an outside stair, Ali Khan Vali album

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