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Khidr-Elias shrine at Mar Behnam monastery, published 1911

Place: Mar Behnam · today Iraq
Date: 1911

Photograph of the domed Khidr-Elias tomb shrine and a smaller building on the open plain beside the monastery of Mar Behnam, south-east of Mosul, published by Conrad Preusser in 1911.

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Wikimedia Commons (from Conrad Preusser, Nordmesopotamische Baudenkmäler altchristlicher und islamischer Zeit, Leipzig 1911)

Conrad Preusser · Public domain (published 1911).

Khidr-Elias shrine at Mar Behnam monastery, published 1911

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