Historic Cemeteries and Rituals

A collection of vintage photographs showcasing various cemeteries, funerary rituals, and gatherings related to religious practices, featuring gravestones and natural settings.

A Priest gives Holy Communion in the open air, at a Ranch (Estancia) in Argentina owned by Cynalewski in the Province of Buenos Aires. Date: 1906

Dutch Cemetery, Inasa, Nagasaki, Antoon Bauduin (Attributed To), 1862 - 1866 photograph Japan paper albumen print churchyard, cemetery Japan

Waterweight Feast for Greek Orthodox in Vladimir Wolinsky.

Praga, cementerio judio.

Jeda. Cemetery of the Princes and Nobles, at Jeda..

Evan.festgottesdienst-St. Eve Mahl a.d.Hermada.15.6.17. .

Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

A Priest gives Holy Communion in the open air, at a Ranch (Estancia) in Argentina owned by Cynalewski in the Province of Buenos Aires. Date: 1906

Heldenfriedhof am Monte Kuk near Zagora.

Painting the Racławice Panorama: Tadeusz Popiel and Ludwig Boller standing with pallets on scaffolding with the part of the canvas showing the cross at the crossroads in Dziemierzyce. Hamel i Feigl (Lwów ; skład materiałów fotograficznych ; 1892-ca 1905), merchant employer, unknown, photographer

The Altar - Cheyenne. Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868 - 1952)

th, March Park - Schmelzer Friedhof - Grave Grab, Book Card, Rudolf Pichler -, photographer

Jeda. Cemetery of the Princes and Nobles, at Jeda..

th, Schmelzer Friedhof today March Park - tomb - group of tombstones, August Stauda -, photographer

Jerusalem El-Kouds Garden of Gethsemane, interior 1898, Israel

Waterweight Feast for Greek Orthodox in Vladimir Wolinsky.

Wicklow, St. Kevins Cross & Pilgrim. - Ireland. European Scenery. The Best Series; 1860s; Albumen silver print

Cemetery in Wojmica.

Barcelona, 02/25/1906. Remains of the burned altar in the church of San Pablo del Campo. Only the ciborium with the sacred forms could be saved from the accident.

Collected remains of 3 crosses on Calvarienberg, section Podgora South, West Görz.

Cemetery with several people near tomb with large tree. Unknown

Cemetery scene with gravestones and two seated people under trees, Turkish cemetery near Skutari, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated 1f-4898244

Seepy i.e. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass. , Cemeteries. Leon Abdalian Collection

High Altar, the spot where Harold fell, Battle Abbey, Sussex.. Unknown maker, British

Chapel and hero graves. .

Surrounded by people, Bali. Photo taken during cursy burning parties in Bali in 1910.

A row of images (Buddha), Toshogu sanctuary, Nikko, Japan ..

Vittorio, Nativity scene of the German soldiers in the Franciscan monastery. .

Hero cemetery at Drszczow.

Church of St. Johann. .

View near the preacher's stand , Carriages & coaches, Children, Horses

Description: The dedication of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Tomb, Grytviken, South Georgia. Location: Grytviken, Falkland Islands Date: February 1928

'Golgotha (The Place of the Skull)', c1900. Artist: Unknown.

Decoration day crowds at cemetery in Kirkwood. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois

Description: The Altar of Heaven. Location: Peking, China Date: 1920 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Altar of Heaven. Altar of Heaven

graveyard

Seepy i.e. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass. , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments. Leon Abdalian Collection

Aboriginal life among the Navajoe Indians, near old Fort Defiance, N.M. ,. Photographs of the American West

Arab cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey, ca 1910.

Feast of Tabernacles, Bukharan Jews during Sukkot 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

View of a cemetery in India.

Soca.ortsfriedhof.The water pipe goes through the lowest cemetery road. .

Kifl. Native Muslim village with a Jewish shrine to the prophet Ezekiel. Interior of the shrine. 1932, Iraq, al-Kifl

Dance Rock at Walpi Pueblo, Arizona. John K. Hillers (American, 1843 - 1925)

A depiction of the pilgrimage station Muzdal' fah located between Muna and 'Arafah, created in 1889. The image captures the valleys and mountains of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, portraying Muslim pilgrims and their pilgrimage rituals. The dimensions of the image are 27 x 36 cm. Published by E.J. Brill in Leiden

Constantinople (current Istanbul), Turkey Tombes and Cippes Funerals in the Eyüp cemetery , 1912 - Turkey - Stéphane Passet - (September) (French - Constantinople ( actuelle Istanbul ) , Turquie Tombes et cippes funéraires dans le cimetière d' Eyüp). Tomb, cemetery, funeral architecture, Islam, vegetation , botany, Habitat , architecture, religion, nature , environment, Turkey, Eyoub, the cemetery

Chochołów Wooden Shrine

The Tea Horse Road (Cha Ma Dao) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma, to Tibet, and to central China via Sichuan Province. In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its presumed origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan.

Mexican grave. Raymondville, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Raymondville, Texas , Willacy County

Weeping in the Graveyard. G. Lekegian (French, active Paris, France and Egypt 1870s - 1890s)

All aerials in the karst area.Motif from the Hero Cemetery in Soca.

Marble cross, Greenwood Cemetery. Stereoscopic gems of Brooklyn & vicinity. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Cemeteries , New York (State) , New York, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Crucifixes

Wayside temple, China

Temple entrance of the Elephanta caves near Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Samuel Bourne (attributed to), 1870 photograph An inscription has been made in the cave that tells the story of Shiva and his wife Parvati who play a dice game near their home Mount Kailash in Tibet. Parvati's head has been turned in the opposite direction compared to the head of Shiva. Shiva is deliberately losing to make his wife happy. On the left in the cave you can see reconstructed columns. Elephant paper albumen print temple, shrine ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism Elephanton Caves

Photograph shows an Indonesian graveyard situated in a forest. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indonesia. Dated c1935.

Grave of William Bradford , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Obelisks, Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Leon Abdalian Collection

CrostwitzStone cross

Christian crosses in Germany, Harrasfelsen, 1911, Erzgebirgskreis, Zschopautal, Körnerkreuz auf dem Harrasfelsen

Ghilzais on the Road to Kabúl, Frederick Saint John Gore, c. 1890 - in or before photomechanical print Pakistan paper collotype anonymous historical person portrayed. clans, tribal relationships. public road

Cross roadside; Bu Hak, Jan (1876-1950); around 1909 (1914-00-00-1914-00-00);

Tanganyika. Arusha. A native ngoma. Festive gathering. 1936, Tanzania, Arusha

The cascade of St. Anthony, from below. Glimpses of the great west, 931. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.)

Eastern end of Mount Zion or City of David 1893 Chicago. Albumen print, stereo, from the series The Chicago Panorama of The Crucifixion . Henry Hamilton Bennett

Heldenfriedhof in Motta di Livenza.

Pueblo of Laguna, N.M. Dance of San Jose.. Charles F. Lummis (American, 1859 - 1928)

Grave digger, 1898, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Coffins, Lifting & carrying, Gravedigging, Gelatin silver print, Mat / 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (26.7 x 34.9 cm)

Tomb with wreath.

Varanasi (benares) and indien. Hinduverbrennung

Stone cross

shepherd life illustrating the Twenty-Third Psalm 'Surely goodness and mercy'. 1910

S.S. conv, convention 1928, Jerusalem, Israel

A set of bronze bells, played melodically. China is the earliest country to manufacture and use musical chimes. They are also called Chime Bells. The outside appearances of the 16 bells are alike, but the inside dimensions are different. The upper right bell, the thickest, produces high tone, and the lower right bell, the thinnest, low tone notes.

Description: Anuradhapura. The sacred Bó tree. Capitals of columns lying on the south side of the enclosure. These columns are eight in number, each in one stone about 13 feet long. They appear to have been finished, but never used. Location: Anuradhapura, Ceylon Description: Anuradhapura. The sacred Bó tree. Stone capital, 1 foot 9 inches high, ornamented with elephants. Location: Anuradhapura, Ceylon asia, srilanka, ceylon, asiathroughalens

Two Orthodox priests at the Greek Convent near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel, the library exterior ca. 1920.

Part of the Jewish cemetery. (March.1918.).

Statue of Our Lady, Notre Dame du Rocher, January 1910

Jewish cemetery in Narajov.

Stone cross

Description: Boys just circumcised. africa

Vladaja, surrounded by Sofia, Bulgaria young girl, in embroidered dress, in front of a small wooden wall with the church in the background , 1918 - Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria - Léon Busy (French - Vladaja , environs de Sofia , Bulgarie Jeune fille , en robe brodée , devant un mur de petit bois avec à l' arrière-plan l' église). Woman, costume, exists in high definition, portrait, Human beings, clothing, HD, Bulgaria, Sophia, Bulgarian girl

Dresden, Chemnitzer Straße 32nd old Annenfriedhof, Northwest wall. Figurine Fall of Unknowns. Sandstone (around 1760)

Tombstones and Tomb on the Bonchurch cemetery; Bonchurch Isle Of Wight. Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks.

Woman seated near a headstone , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Mourning clothing & dress

The Empress mother Cixi (1835-1908) waving a handkerchief in salute to the European ladies on the walls of the Tartar city, Beijing, 1902, China, photo from L'Illustration, No 3430, November 21, 1908.

Cemetery in Oppacchiasella. .

23rd Psalm, sheep 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Stone cross

Description: Anuradhapura. The Stone Canoes. The larger canoe measures 62 feet 9 inches in length, (in three stones,) 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 2 feet 9 inches deep inside. Location: Anuradhapura, Ceylon asia, srilanka, ceylon, asiathroughalens

Masked Dancers in Canoes-Qagyuhl A. Edward S. Curtis; American, 1868-1952. Date: 1914. Dimensions: 29 x 38.8 cm (image/paper); 45.3 x 56.5 cm (mount). Photogravure, plate 351 from "The North American Indian, Volume 10" (1915). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: Edward S. Curtis.

The Benediction. Louis Fleckenstein (American, 1866 - 1943)

Sarojini Naidu the samadhi s graveyards of Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai Aga Khan Palace in Pune, 1944, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives, Palestine..

Burying Hill Plymouth Mass.. Unknown maker, American

Buddhist monks collect almsfood prepared by devotees and laypersons who make merit by donating itevery morning in Burma and most Theravada Buddhist countries. This is their only food for the day. Monks do not eat after 12 noon. Legend attributes the first Buddhist doctrine in Burma to 228 BC when Sonna and Uttara, two ambassadors of the Emperor Ashoka the Great of India, came to the country with sacred texts. However, the golden era of Buddhism truly began in the 11th century after King Anawrahta of Pagan (Bagan) was converted to Theravada Buddhism. Today, 89% of the population of Burma is Theravada Buddhist. <br/><br/>.

Ourga, Mongolia a group of lamas near Stupa's "wall" which marks the limits of Gandan to the west and north , 1913 - Mongolia - Stéphane Passet - (July 6-25) (French - Ourga , Mongolie Un groupe de lamas près du « mur » de stupa qui marque les limites de Gandan à louest et au nord). Animal transport, horse, rider, religious habit, real animal, costume, yurt, Buddhism of Tibetan rite, tent, funeral architecture, child, group portrait, equidated, awning, religious architecture, man, Transport, clothing, animal, religion, housing , architecture, human beings

Description: Tomb of the Late Chief Kapeni, Mount Sochi. Location: Mount Sochi africa

Collotype - The way of the cross, Ste. Anne de Beaupré, QC, about 1907 Neurdein Frères

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Lebanon. Christ image on the hill above Nahr el kelb. A vague relief in the rocks. 1950. Lebanon, Nahr El Kelb

Stone cross with scrubbed Andreaskreuz. Sandstone, 64.0 x 78.0 x 40.0 cm. Forest at the street, Zittau-Lückendorf

Stone cross with crutch cross

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