External courtyard of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Palestine, c.1900-1920

This is a digital reproduction of an image held at the Library of Congress. This photograph depicts the outside of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. In this courtyard crowds gather on Christmas Eve to sing Christmas carols. This is a cropped version of the original image. This image exists as part of the Nativity Church collection within the Library of Congress project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.