Memorials and Vigils

A collection of memorials featuring flowers, candles, and tributes honoring victims of tragedies, expressing solidarity and remembrance in various emotional settings.

Bulgaria, Central Mountains, Stara Zagora, street memorial for child along Tsar Simeon Veliki Street
Bulgaria, Central Mountains, Stara Zagora, street memorial for child along Tsar Simeon Veliki Street
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Secretary of State Micheal R. Pompeo and Mrs. Susan Pompeo tours the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 17, 2020.
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John Lennon Memorial NYC New York City, United States - November 11, 2016: Mosaic for John Lennon at Strawberry Fields in Central Park Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFoerstnerx 12650978
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Grave of a child at the cemetry of Weissenthurm, rhineland-palatinate, germany
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Rajghat, Delhi, India Copyright: xMohammedxSharif/DinodiaxPhotox
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Infiorata Del Corpus Domini. Servigliano. Marche
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Tunnel with candles to remember the victims of the crowd crush at the Loveparade 2010, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Tributes written on the ground, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At a site in the KSC Visitor Complex, flowers and mementos are left by guests as a memorial tribute to the fallen crew of Columbia. The Columbia and her crew of seven were lost on Feb. 1, 2003, over East Texas as they returned to Earth after a 16-day research mission, STS-107.
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Atentado terrorista en las Ramblas de Barcelona el 17 de agosto de 2017. Homenaje a las victmas por parte de ciudadanos.
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Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Northern Spain, Elevated view of procession on Good Friday in the historic center
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DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: FORMER SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT JIM HALSELL, LEFT, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF THE SPACE DIVISION OF DYNETICS INC. OF HUNTSVILLE, LIGHTS A CANDLE FOR NASA'S LOST CREW MEMBERS. TERESA VANHOOSER, MARSHALL DEPUTY DIRECTOR, LOOKS ON. THE CANDLE-LIGHTING WAS PART OF A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY JAN. 30 AT THE MARSHALL CENTER.
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Moment of reverence in front of the eternal flame at the center of the twelve granite slabs of the Armenian Genocide memorial complex on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd at Yerevan, Armenia, Eurasia Copyright: GOUPIxCHRISTIAN 1382-527 Editorial Use Only
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Ukrainian refugees in front of the Embassy of Ukraine, Bucharest, Romania to obtain a biometric passport. On the gates of the embassy flowers, banner designs to pay tribute to the Ukrainians who died in the war. (Photo by: Pascal Bachelet/BSIP/UIG)
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Ukrainian refugees in front of the Embassy of Ukraine - Bucharest - Romania to obtain a biometric passport. On the gates of the embassy flowers, banner designs to pay tribute to the Ukrainians who died in the war
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Independence, California, The cemetery at the Manzanar Internment Camp, one of 10 camps where Japanese-Americans were held during World War II. The site has been preserved as the Manzanar National Historic Site by the National Park Service. Strings of paper cranes hang from a rope around an obelisk on which the inscription reads: ""soul consoling tower."".
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Adorned memorial to John Lennon, Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York City, USA, North America
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Bulgaria, Central Mountains, Koprivshtitsa, grave of political leader Nontso Vodenicharov
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Ottawa, Canada. June 1st, 2021. Members of First Nations communities perform a ceremony in memory of the 215 children found buried at a former Kamloops, British Colombia residential school at a memorial in front of the Canadian Parliament. Native woman performs a ceremonial dance around the impromptu tributes that have gathered. Credit: meanderingemu/Alamy Live News
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Ireland funeral, Pomeroy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Turkish Martyrs Memorial, a red granite obelisk in Ganja, Azerbaijan, dedicated to the memory of Turkish soldiers Ganja, Azerbaijan - May 13, 2024: The Turkish Martyrs Memorial, a red granite obelisk dedicated to the memory of Turkish soldiers who died in the First World War Copyright: xZoonar.com/KHALEDxELADAWYx 22105168
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Russia's Far East, Providenia. The cemetery of Providenia.
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Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Europe
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Guests place flowers near the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The names of fallen astronauts from Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia, as well as the astronauts who perished in training and commercial airplane accidents are emblazoned on the monument. During the annual Day of Remembrance, spaceport employees and guests join others throughout NASA honoring the contributions of astronauts who have perished in the conquest of space.
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The Eternal Flame on Parliament Hill - OTTAWA, CANADA - APRIL 19, 2024 The Eternal Flame on Parliament Hill - OTTAWA, CANADA NORTH AMERICA - APRIL 19, 2024 Copyright: xZoonar.com/ÊrikxLattweinx 21730301
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Cemetery of Slavutych, where most of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster are buried, mostly liquidators, who died years after their mission at the reactor from sequelae, on many headstones the reactor is featured, Slavutych, Ukraine, Europe
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Tunisian exiles in front of Brandenburg Gate demonstrating their solidarity with the Jasmin Revolution in Tunisia and demanding freedom and democracy for their homeland, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Tomb of the poet and Cuban national hero Jose Marti, Cementerio de Santa Ifigenia cemetary, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Caribbean, Central America
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Vigil in St Ann's Square, Manchester, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.
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Portugal, Lisbon. Rua Augusta street mime. (Mozart) Pigeon on his head. (Editorial Use Only)
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Memorial plaque to Pope Paul II, Friendship Bridge, Zgorzelec, Poland, Europe
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Wreaths of artificial poppies laid in commemoration of Victims of the Armenian Genocide, 1915, at the Cenotaph, London, United Kingdom
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Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at Raj Ghat, Delhi, India, Asia
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LONDON, ENGLAND- 6th June 2021: Shoes outside the High Commission of Canada, symbolising the recent discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous childre
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DEDEDO, Guam (Sept. 11, 2022) - Joint Region Marianas leadership, Guam's Lt. Gov. Josh Tenorio, the Rotary Club of Northern Guam, and multiple other distinguished guests joined together at Two Lovers Point to observe the 21st Anniversary of 9/11. Guests and participants laid five wreaths in honor of the nearly 3,000 lives lost in the attack on the World Trade Center 21 years ago.
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John Lennon Memorial at Strawberry Fields, Central Pak, NY
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Mourners gather around the coffins of four Palestinian migrants who died in Tunisia, during their funeral at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza city. Palestine.
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Plaque commemorating visit of Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II to Hiroshima, Japan's Memorial Cathedral for World Peace on February 25, 1981. Church was consumed by first atomic bomb used in warfare July 6, 1945. Efforts by the Vatican led to construction of new current cathedral in 1954.
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Funeral of Oleg Yashchishin, Kirilo Vishivaniy, Sergey Melnik and Rostislav Romanchuk in the Jesuit Church of St. Peter and Paul, the four officers killed in a Russian missile attack two days earlier in a military camp near the border with Poland in Yavoriv, at least 35 people died, Lviv, Ukraine, Europe
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The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 2020-11-09. Report on the spiritual movement inspired by the Falung Gong, or Falun Dafa, in the Netherlands. Created in China, Falun Gong is banned in China, and its followers, mainly Chinese exiles, campaign for human rights in China. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Pays-Bays, Amsterdam, le 2020-11-09. Reportage sur le mouvement spirituel est inspire du qigong des Falung Gong, ou Falun Dafa, aux Pays-Bas. Cree en Chine, le Falun Gong est interdit en Chine, et ses adeptes, principalement des exiles chinois, milites pour les Droits de l Homme en Chine. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.
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Maracaibo, Venezuela. February 7, 2025. Family members and friends of political prisoners, holding photos, gather in prayer for the release of their loved ones, at an event organized by the Church in Venezuela.
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Oaxaca, Mexico, A billboard in the zocalo shows the faces of persons who have disappeared. Over the years, many have disappeared at the hands of gangs or corrupt police, Central America
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Stockholm, Sweden People lighting candles at a vigil for a man slain by teenage gang members in the Skarholmen ehtnic suburb.
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Dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, New York, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne delivered the keynote address and spoke with National Park Service staff and other attendees. The permanent memorial, constructed to honor the memories of the free and enslaved Africans bured at the original seven-acre Lower Manhattan site in the 17th and 18th Centuries, was opened to the public for the first time.