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Blind Nestorian nun, a patient at Urmia Hospital

PhotographAA-0675

Blind Nestorian nun, a patient at Urmia Hospital

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 20th century

Clergy Mission Portrait

An elderly woman wrapped in shawls sits on a stone step beside a brick wall, a basket at her side. The album caption calls her a "Blind Nestorian nun patient at Urmia Hospital. Persia."; she is a rare photographed example of a woman religious of the Church of the East.

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Source

General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, GCAH Mission Albums Gallery (Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church photograph albums)

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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