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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Dec 21, 2013, 07:22 AM Dec 2013

Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day)

http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/center-syria-photo.html

Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day)
By Juan Cole | Dec. 21, 2013

(From Gertrude Bell, Syria: The Desert and the Sown, 1908)

Hama is a small, mainly Sunni Arab city in the center-west of Syria famed for its water wheels. For Syrian Sufi orders see this link

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Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day) (Original Post) unhappycamper Dec 2013 OP

Well it only took Stevenmarc Dec 2013 #1

Stevenmarc

(4,483 posts)

1. Well it only took

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Sat Dec 21, 2013, 10:34 AM

Dec 2013

105 years to become photo of the day, there must be quite a backlog.

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