Historic Religious Processions

Early 20th-century photos of traditional religious ceremonies in the Middle East, highlighting cultural practices and community gatherings.

Bethlehem and surroundings A Judean home. Suggestive of the 'Wise Men' seeking the Christ Child. 1920, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel
Bethlehem and surroundings A Judean home. Suggestive of the 'Wise Men' seeking the Christ Child. 1920, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel
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Wailing Wall Jerusalem Israel
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Devout Jewish women at the Wailing Wall 1900, Jerusalem, Israel
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The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim Prayer on the holy rock, on knees 1900, West Bank
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(French - Monastir ( actuelle Bitola ) , Macédoine Deux femmes villageoises de Smilevo , près de Monastir , vues de dos).
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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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Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
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Funeral of King Hussein, Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar, Dome of the Rock. 1931, Israel
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ETHIOPIA,TIGRAY-CIRCA JANUARY 2018--unidentified little muslim girl in her village
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Anefo photo collection. Commemorative Sunday church walk Halsteren in snow. February 8, 1953. Halsteren
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This photograph dating to around 1913 shows Hindus preparing to cremate someone who has died at a cremation ghat at Benares, India. In India, a ghat is a landing place, with stairs descending to a river (here, the Ganges river) for purposes of bathing, cremating the dead, and other activities. The cremation ghat is the level space at the head of a ghat, the space where Hindus cremate their dead.
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Guides/porters at Tiwanaku (sometimes Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) - a important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire, flourishing as the ritual and administrative capital of a major state power for approximately five hundred years. Date: circa 1910s
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Valdeajos. The dream of black gold. On June 6, 1964, the discovery of an oil field in the Páramo de La Lora in Burgos was announced. In the photograph, some priests from the region on the prospecting grounds.
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Poll photo collection. Village life and landscapes on the Catalan coast. Priest holds a funeral speech in the cemetery. undated. Catalonia, Spain
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Toda People and their distinctive huts from Ooty, short for Ootacamund (sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai Tamil). A town and municipality (and the district capital) of the Nilgiris district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Toda traditionally live in settlements consisting of three to seven of these small thatched houses, constructed in the shape of half-barrels and spread across the slopes of the pasture. Date: 1910s
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S 49. Rachel's grave (on the road to Bethlehem) .. The photo is part of the photo series collected by Richard Polak from Israel, Palestine and Syria.
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Southern Palestine. Old well at Beersheba. 1898, Israel, Beersheba
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Tibet, Hermit Kingdom -- Entrance to the Sera monastery. At the beginning of the main street stand two of the traditional keepers of the Peace, bearing Symbols of Authority. May 05, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).
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SkiopT icon image with motifs from Cordoba in Spain.The image has been stored in cardboard labeled :
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Poll photo collection. Israel: Meron, synagogue and graves. Man sitting at the entrance gate to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, probably a beggar. undated. Galilee, Israel, Meron
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The Shrine Of Our Lady Of Divine Love. Rome. Italy. 1959
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Crusader church Gethsemane 1937 Remains of Crusader church near Gethsemane found in June (or 1st July). 1937, Jerusalem, Israel
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Wailing wall in Jerusalem, Anonymous, 1905 stereograph Wailing wall Publisher: Leipzig cardboard. paper albumen print religious practices, worship, liturgy ~ Jewish religion Wailing wall
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The escape of the Conception nuns before the fire of their convent, Tragic Week in Barcelona, Spain, photo from L'Illustration, No 3468, August 14, 1909.
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Jerusalem. View of the Kedurnal and the olive mountain with below the way of imprisonment, cemeteries with the monuments for Zechariah and Bene Hesir and halfway through the hill The Russian Orthodox Maria Magdalenakerk. January 1, 1948. Gethsémané, Israel, Jerusalem, Olives, Russia, Kedurnal
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The Armenian Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million. Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination. It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, as scholars point to the systematic, organized manner in which the killings were carried out to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust. The word genocide was coined in order to describe these events.
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March 1921. Dublin (Ireland). The Executions of "Sinn-Feiners". 1.- demonstration of 3,000 Women to protest against the Sentences. 2.- Public Prayers at the Prison Gates.
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Dap-crumb, bac-ninh, tonkin, Indochina the threshing of rice after the harvest in front of the dap-cauu pagoda , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Dap-Cu , Bac-Ninh ,Tonkin , Indochine Le battage du riz après la moisson devant la Pagode de Dap-Cu). Buddhism, woman, rice, costume, agriculture , breeding, pagoda, child, rural architecture, hairstyle , headgear, court, religious architecture, Religion, human beings, clothing, economic activity, habitat , architecture, Indochina, tonkin, threshing: rice threshing
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The catacombs at Guanajuato. 1898. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Catacombs , Mexico , Guanajuato, Mummies
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(French - Monastir ( actuelle Bitola ) , Macédoine Trois femmes juives aux coiffures anciennes).
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(French - Monastir ( actuelle Bitola ) , Macédoine Une villageoise bulgare et son fils , des environs de Monastir , vue de dos).
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Jewish emigrants leaving the Russian Caucasus region to go to Palestine 1921
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03/31/1921. Barcelona. Two News Notes. 1.- facade of the crypt of the temple of the sacred heart of Jesus, recently inaugurated. 2.- the Civil Governor, Mr. Martínez Anido (A), at the inauguration of the exhibition of paintings by the illustrious painter Carlos Vázquez (B), installed at the Ritz.
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Turkey. Mount Erciyas and Incesu. Celebration on Constitution Day. 1935, Incesu
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Franciscan monk in the garden of Getsemane at the foot of the olive mountain in Jerusalem. Part of photo album from a journey through Southern Europe and the Middle East.
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Bethlehem and surroundings Well of David 1900, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel
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23rd Psalm, sheep 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Πλατανος Γαστουριου - Κερκυρα , Wells, Pails, Pottery. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Bread Bazaar, Mosul, Iraq. Date: circa 1910s
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Ghat, Libya. Tukul, Tuareg family
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Native American. Puebloan peoples. Village. Engraving by Rodolfo Cronau. 19th C.
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SkiopT icon image with motifs of San Miguel, Albaicin.The image has been stored in cardboard marked: Höstesan 1910. Granada 9. N: 14. Text on image: "Albaicin Pl de S. Miguel".
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Palestine, Mur où les Juifs vont pleurer à Jérusalem; Félix Bonfils (French, 1831 - 1885); Alais, France; 1877; Tinted Albumen silver print
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Women greeting each other, Japan, Asia
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Galilee. Man at the Greek-Orthodox Anunciation Church in Nazareth sells sweets. January 1, 1948. Israel, Nazareth
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Peace On Earth Goodwill To Men -- The bells of St. John's in Jerusalem ring out to commemorate the anniversary of Christ's birth 1947 years ago.So peaceful does this scene appear, and justly so for this is the Church of St. John's in Jerusalem, the Holy Land from which the Gospel of Brotherhood has spread all over the world. May this be a happy omen not only for the strife-ridden land of Palestine but for the whole of the storm-tossed world. December 01, 1947.
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Men at the church in Grubiszow Russia, Volhynia; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 4.
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Students at work in the courtyard ('heart') of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. The Mosque is directly associated with Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 975. The chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world and the world's second oldest surviving degree granting university. The university's mission includes the propagation of Islamic religion and culture. To this end, its Islamic scholars (ulemas) render edicts (fatwas) on disputes submitted to
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Lithuania. Vilnius. Believers kneel praying on the sidewalk at the gate of the dawn above which a chapel with a much honored icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mater misericordiae) is located from the street is visible from the street. 1934. Lithuania, Vilnius
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Arabia, el kuwait, Arab women in mourning dress, 1953.
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Mount Hermon, scene of the Transfiguration Druze, Druze guide on the summit 1900), Israel
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Man reciting the words of the Koran
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MUJERES SIRIAS A LA ENTRADA DEL MONASTERIO. Location: MONASTERIO DE SAN SIMEON. ALEPO.
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05/01/1915. Feast of Saint Augustine in the Escorial - Carousel in the courtyard of the María Cristina University by Several Students of that decent center.
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Tibetan refugees turning prayer wheels in front of Himalayan panorama, Tibetan refugee camp 1975 in Ladakh, man with prayer wheel, Leh, Ladakh, India, Asia
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CEREMONIA DE ENCENDER LA ANTORCHA DE LOS JUEGOS. Location: EXTERIOR. OLIMPIA. GREECE.
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Italy. piedmont. santa vittoria d'alba. seminarists. 1950-1960.
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The Chapel of Holy Virgin Mary of Bogolyubovo in Moscow, Russian Photographer
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Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth at the grave of Cecil Rhodes in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1947. Cecil Rhodes is buried on the summit of Malindidizumu, together with Sir Charles Coghlan, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Allan Wilson and several other white settlers
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Procession, valtournenche, valle d'aosta, italy, 1920-30.
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The Druze are a monotheistic religious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, which emerged during the 11th century from Ismailism. Druze beliefs incorporate several elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies. The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid, the 'People of Monotheism' or al-Muwahhidun 'the Unitarians'.
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Sanctuary of Fatima. Portugal. 70's.
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PORTADA DE UN DISCO DEL GRUPO FOLKLORICO HUMAHUACA - MUSICA NAVIDEÑA Y DE LA FIESTA DE LA CANDELARIA.