PhotographAA-0521

Sister of the Nestorian Patriarch with family, Baqubah

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

A family group of about twenty men, women and children posed before a tent at the Baqubah camp, captioned "Sister of Nestorian Patriarch - with family". The sister is not named; possibly Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun.

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

Marie Gillespie

Sister of the Nestorian Patriarch with family, Baqubah

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