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Nestorian priests at Baqubah refugee camp, 1918-1919

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

Three priests of the Church of the East in long cassocks and turbans, one seated wearing a pectoral cross, in front of a tent at the Baqubah camp. Captioned "Nestorian Priests". Left photograph of a scrapbook page.

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Presbyterian Historical Society, Pearl Digital Collections (photographs from the estate of Marie Gillespie, missionary to Iran, 1917-1940)

Marie Gillespie

Nestorian priests at Baqubah refugee camp, 1918-1919

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