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Religion { 33 images } Created 24 Oct 2014

A sample of my images depicting religion and faith around the world.
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  • With people gathered for a service, beams of morning sunlight stream into the church at Tatev Monastery in Armenia.<br />
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(October 1, 2016)
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  • A Yazidi family baptizes an infant in the holy village of Lalish, Iraq. The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious minority indigenous to northern Mesopotamia.
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  • A Turkish man walks past the entrance to the Jewish synagogue in Antakya (Hatay), Turkey. In the ancient world Antakya, then called Antioch, had a thriving Jewish community. Today that number has dwindled to a few dozen.
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  • The barren mountains of Sinai are reflected in a gift shop window at St. Catherine's Monastery, a Christian landmark built in the sixth century in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Icons are on display in the window.
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  • Balinese men, women, and children wait in line to pray at the Tirta Empul temple, a Hindu Balinese water temple located near the town of Tampaksiring, Bali, Indonesia. (2017)
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  • A Jewish man leans into the Western Wall and prays, his face in his hands. The Western Wall is the holiest site in Judaism. (Jerusalem - October 20, 2010)
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  • Refectory Church at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, a monastic center and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kiev, Ukraine.
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  • A man on a ferry traveling from Nuweiba, Egypt to Aqaba, Jordan preaches to fellow Muslim passengers before they perform sunset prayers together. Most of the passengers are Egyptians on their way to jobs in other Arab countries. The man preaching is an Egyptian on his way to Saudi Arabia (via Aqaba) to undertake further religious study. The land in the distance is the outskirts of Aqaba, Jordan.
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  • A fully-veiled Muslim woman and a Christian woman grasp hands in a show of solidarity during the anti-Mubarak protest in Tahrir Square. (Cairo, Egypt - February 9, 2011)
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  • Buddha images at Dhammayangyi Pahto in Bagan, Myanmar. The date and builder of the Dhammayangyi Pahto are matters of some scholarly controversy, but it is generally thought to have been built by King Narathu (r. c.1167-70).
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  • A plastic bag of fresh flat bread, brought up by rope from the valley below at sunrise, to Deir Mar Musa, a monastery established in the 6th century in Syria
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  • A sign hanging from the closed door of a shop says "Sorry we are closed for prayers". Location is Malacca, Malaysia, during the month of Ramadan
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  • The tower of Shkodër Cathedral, also known as St Stephen's Catholic Cathedral, framed by two minarets of a neighborhing mosque, in Shkodër, Albania
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  • A Greek Orthodox monk stands at the entrance to the Edicule, or tomb of Jesus, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
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  • A Jewish man and Palestinian woman at opposite ends of a crosswalk, waiting to cross the street, in Jerusalem
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  • A woman holds a candle and prays inside Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. The cathedral, completed in the early 1900s, was built in honor of Russian and other soldiers who died during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, in which Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman rule.
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  • A Burmese family prays while, in the foreground, two cats mate at the Botataung Paya. The paya is named after the 1000 military leaders who escorted relics of the Buddha from India to Myanmar more than 2000 years ago.
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  • Armenian Orthodox Christians worship at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine
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  • A Jewish woman from Germany explores the Sofia Synagogue in Bulgaria. Built in the early 1900s, it is said to be the largest synagogue in southeastern Europe and the third-largest in Europe.
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  • A monk in early morning walks in the courtyard of Rila Monastery. The largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria, it is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km (73 mi) south of the capital Sofia at an elevation of 1,147 m (3,763 ft) above sea level.  It was founded in the 10th century.
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  • Interior of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Willemstad, Curacao. The synagogue is the oldest in continuous use in the western hemisphere. Jews moved to Curacao in the 1650s; the current building dates from 1730. The sand floor is said to symbolize one of three things:<br />
1. The 40 years the Jewish people spent wandering the Sinai Desert after their departure from Egypt.<br />
2. A reminder of the Inquisition, when synagogues in Spain and Portugal were sometimes covered with sand to muffle the footsteps of Jews worshipping in secret.<br />
3. God's promise to Abraham to multiply his seed as the sands upon the seashore.
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  • A church sign along a highway in western North Carolina that reads: WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? HEAVEN OR HELL. READ JOHN 3:16
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  • A Bosnian Muslim woman, traveling by bus from Srebrenica to Sarajevo, looks out the window at a Serbian Orthodox Church several miles after leaving Srebrenica. Srebrenica became infamous in July 1995, when more than 6000 Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serbs.
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  • A statue of Jesus casts a shadow against the facade of the Cathedral of St. Louis at night in New Orleans, Louisiana
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  • Sign for the Jordan River at Bethany-Beyond-the-Jordan, Jordan, where Jesus was baptized. The river itself is on the opposite side of the buildings in the background.
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  • On the outskirts of the village of Sansol, in the Spanish region of Navarre, the Camino de Santiago passes a distance marker that reads "1 way to Santiago". The Camino de Santiago, known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways leading to the shrine of the apostle James in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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  • A pilgrim statue stands at one end of a bridge on the Camino de Santiago in Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain (July 2, 2018)
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  • A Greek Orthodox priest lights a candle inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the background people pray before the Alter of the Crucifixion, where some Christians believe Jesus was crucified. (Jerusalem - October 4, 2010)
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  • The sun sets at Khersones, an ancient site in Sevastopol, Crimea, in Ukraine. The structure on the left commemorates the baptism of Prince Vladimir here in 988. Vladimir was the leader of Kievan Rus'.
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  • A cross inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception, a Syriac Catholic Church in Qaraqosh, Iraq. The church was heavily damaged by ISIS during its two-year occupation of the predominately Christian town, which ended on October 19, 2016, when Qaraqosh was liberated as part of the Battle of Mosul.
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  • Young Kosovars walk past a corner of The National and University Library of Kosovo, located on the University of Pristina campus. In the background is the controversial Christ the Saviour Cathedral, an unfinished Serbian Orthodox Christian church whose construction began in 1995 but was never finished due to the Kosovo War. The fate of the building is contested.
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  • A landmark site in Myanmar and the destination of many a Buddhist pilgrim, the Golden Rock (also called the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda) is famous for how it is precariously perched on the ledge. It is said that the rock is balanced on a hair of the Buddha. People gather beside the boulder to pray, take pictures, etc.
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  • A couple walks past an old synagogue in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. The communist Red Star sits over the outline of a Star of David, which was removed from this synagogue during the Soviet period. A new satellite dish is on the roof.
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