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Archaeological Sites in the Holy Land

Historic sites featuring ancient ruins and Byzantine architecture, capturing the essence of religious history and excavation efforts in the Middle East.

Native home. 'No room at the Inn'. 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
Native home. 'No room at the Inn'. 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1964-1965. Ein-Karem. Ein-karim. Square at the church of O.Vroge visitation. In the foreground a wrought iron fence with a cross with the figures of Maria and Johannes eV. A Franciscan Father wipes the squamous. January 1, 1964. Ein Karem, Israel
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Procession To Wailing Wall Follows Announcement Of Commission's Plan In Palestine -- The wailing Wall in Jerusalem.While Palestine Jews and Arabs listened last right to the royal commission's plan to give them separate States and split the country into three because of their inability to agree, British and native police, with rifles and gas masks patrolled the streets. After hearing the broadcast, a procession of orthodox Jews wended their way to the Wailing wall in Jerusalem to beseech God to preserve Israel from the desecration of carving. July 08, 1937. (Photo by Keystone).
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Mission Carmel of Monterey, Cal. Founded June 3d, 1770, by Junipero Serra. , Mission churches
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Ysleta Mission. La Misión de Corpus Christi de San Antonio de la Ysleta del Sur, El Paso, Texas. 1936
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Albumin paper photograph by Christian Paier, 1864, depicting the Ecce Homo motif from a book, showing figure of Christ, facial expression, and artistic details.
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shepherd life, illustrating the Twenty Third Psalm 'And I will dwell in the house of the Lord' 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Franciscaner Monnik in the garden of Getsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Anonymous, c. 1900 - In or Before 1910 photograph Part of photo album of a trip through Southern Europe and the Middle East. Jerusalem photographic support gelatin silver print monk(s), friar(s). garden Jerusalem
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Ain Karem. Initials of a rusian woman monastery in Ain Karem in a garden at their monastery. January 1, 1948. Ain Karem, Israel, Jerusalem
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China, Tibet, Friendship highway
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Najaf is renowned as the site of the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib (also known as 'Imam Ali'), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad whom the Shia consider to be the righteous caliph and first imam. The city is now a great center of pilgrimage from throughout the Shi'a Islamic world. Date: circa 1910s
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Bedouin wedding Bedouin saluting 1900, the Bedouin are a grouping of nomadic Arab peoples who have historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Levant.
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Church bells in Corbolone 19.11.17. .
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11/06/1939. In the vicinity of Paracuellos del Jarama, where three years earlier more than ten thousand people were murdered, the relatives of the victims pray in front of the ditches where the mortal remains of those shot lie.
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Jacinta Meachada 8x May 1881 Carmelo Vely , Mission churches
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Searching a Greek priest for arms. 1920 Middle East
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Exposition Universelle (World Fair) Paris, 1900; Black and white illustration of women dancing at the Egyptian Theatre in the Temple of Oriental Dance.
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Fragments of daily life in Birkat Al Mozw. Oman
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A scribal priest, a man wearing a turban, offers his services outside a court in Gondar. In the background one of the castles erected by the Portuguese in the 16th century.
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Wild flowers of Palestine. (Taken in their natural settings). Cyclamen (C. Latifolium Sibth. et Sm.). the Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene, from northwest, Jerusalem. 1898, Jerusalem
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Preparations for the execution of Savonarola, May 23, 1498, after the wood painting preserved in a cell of the convent of San Marco in Florence, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1880.
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The Wood Market - Timbuktu, Mali. Date: 1910s
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Ruthenic church. Lawoczne. .
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The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim High priest leading in prayer 1900, West Bank
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Catholic church, Ansel Adams
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Anefo photo collection. unknown . General rehearsal of the passion games in Tegelen, Jesus and Mary and the disciples. May 16, 1960. Limburg, Tegelen
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The Grande Laure monastery, Greece , 1918 - Greece - Fernand Cuville - (September) (French - Le monastère de la Grande Laure , Grèce). Christianity, religious practice, kiosk, monastery, decorative arts, hydraulic installation, stained glass, fountain, medium age, dome , dome, religious architecture, Religion , Art , Habitat , Architecture, Mont Athos, Grande Lavra, the phiale
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Middle Ages. German monks plowing the earth. Engraving of Germania, 1882. Color.
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CEREMONIA DE ENCENDER LA ANTORCHA DE LOS JUEGOS. Location: EXTERIOR. OLIMPIA. GREECE.
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Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France , 1920-1921 - Charente, Gironde, Basse -Pyrénées, Hautes Pyrénées - Fernand Cuville (French - Lourdes , Hautes-Pyrénées , France). Statue, woman, prayer, pilgrimage, palm , palm grove, Christianity, religious practice, sculpture, park , garden, man, Human beings, religion, art, housing , architecture, France, Lourdes, the faithful in prayers in front of the statue of the Virgin.
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Arabs at prayer in a mosque in Tripoli, Libya, Italian-Turkish war, photograph by D'Armesano, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 6, February 11, 1912.
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Fliegende Person, Churches in Naumburg (Saale), 1905, Saxony-Anhalt, Naumburg, Fliegende Frau, Germany
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Jews wailing place.. Reverend George Wilson Bridges (English, born Australia, 1788 - 1863)
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Poll photo collection. A supervisor at the tomb of the philosopher and doctor Rabbi Maimonides with the in background a wall with signs where his name and birth and death are listed. undated. Israel, Tiberias
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Anefo photo collection. Commemorative Sunday church walk Halsteren in snow. February 8, 1953. Halsteren
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23rd Psalm, sheep 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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12/31/1960. Beaches and landscapes that witnessed the appearance of the Virgin of Candelaria.
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Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Celebration of Iraq becoming member of the League of Nations, Oct. 6, 1932. Baghdad. Maronite Bishop, etc. At the King's reception. 1932, Iraq, Baghdad
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Vintage Photograph. Muslims praying in street before their Mosque.
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Skiopter icon image with motifs from alley in Cordoba.The image has been stored in cardboard labeled: Höstesan 1910. Cordoba 9. N: 4.
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Slave Auctioneers - Marrakesh, Morocco. A Prayer Before the sale. Date: circa 1903