PhotographAA-0486

Mar Gawriel of Ardishai with his nephew and Anglican missionaries, 1886

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1886

Taken in 1886: Mar Gawriel of Ardishai stands behind his nephew and designated successor, with the Anglican mission priests A. J. Maclean on the left and W. H. Browne on the right, among a crowd of men, women and children.

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Internet Archive (community upload, scanned from Solomon Sawa Solomon, The Indestructible Assyrians: A Photo History of Modern Assyrians, 2010)

Mar Gawriel of Ardishai with his nephew and Anglican missionaries, 1886

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