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Religious Celebrations in Africa

Photographs capturing vibrant African ceremonies and church services, highlighting traditional garments and communal worship in culturally rich environments.

Woman Praying
Woman Praying
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Mass in St Anthonys catholic church, Hanoukope, Lome, Togo.
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Evangelical church, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Sunday morning catholic mass. Young boy praying. Lome. Togo.
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Benin, Come, Mono Department. A smartly dressed young girl attends a dance in praise of Fetish gods during a ceremony to honor a man who had just died.
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Africa, Gabon, Estuaire Region, Libreville Capital, During A Syncretic Bwiti Ceremony
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Woman wearing a cross standing in a village in northern Rwanda
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Islamic woman, Takaungu, Kenya.
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Woman Praying
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Benin, Collines County, Tchogodo, Place Of The Village, Devotees Dancing For Their Fetisher A«  NéSoukwé A»
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Voodoo ceremony in Dogondoutchi, Niger, Africa
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Sunday mass in Saint Peter's catholic church, Karongi, Rwanda
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Ethiopia Famine
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Pentecostal Sunday service, Missessinto, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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African mother reading the Koran, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Muslim boy in Africa.
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Mass in Cathedrale Notre-Dame de la Misericorde. Cotonou. Benin.
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Christian woman carrying prayer beads in Niakhar, Senegal
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Woman and child, during the church service, Manyemen, Cameroon, Africa
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Muslim woman
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Christian woman on her doorstep in central Benin.
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Yuma Dicko, a young Fulani woman in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, touches her forehead to the ground for the afternoon prayer.  The Fulani are typically Muslim.  Traditionally pastoralist, they can be found throughout West Africa, crisscrossing the continent in search of water and green pastures for their cattle. NOT MODEL RELEASED. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
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Voodoo cult villagers gourd instrument with shells, Sacred Forest of Kpasse, Ouidah, Benin
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Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Kumasi. Ashanti people in traditional dress at Akwasidae Festival.
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Muslim boy in Africa.
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Benin, Collines County, Tchogodo, Hountinmin Convent, Tamingnon Lantonde And Aloffan Hindemin Prepare Themselves For A Ceremony For Zakpata, One Of The Most Important God Of Voodoo Pantheon
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Old Voodoo priestess in her convent, Togoville, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Woman at a Voodoo ceremony in Dogondoutchi, Niger, Africa
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Africa, Benin, Ouidah. Local women performing traditional voodoo dance in Kpasse Sacred Forest.
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Catholic choir rehearsing, Bohicon, Zou, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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Africa, West Africa, Togo, Voodoo Hospital. Portrait of traditional voodoo healer in vibrant dress outside shrine to heal the mentally ill in Togo.
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Woman playing drums at a church service, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa
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Evangelical church, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Woman Reading Bible
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african muslim couple at home in ramadan reading quran holly islam book
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Voodoo ceremony in Dogondoutchi, Niger, Africa
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Woman Reading Bible
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African man praying the rosary.
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Lalibella Village Ethiopia
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Man reading a bible at a Christian religious ceremony in a cave (where there is a source of Holy Water) at St. Neakutoleab Monestry near Lalibela. Ethiopia.
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Church Men Drinking Local Tella Beer At Easter, Asheten Maryam Church; Lalibela, Asmara Region, Ethiopia
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Close-up a person holding the Koran
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Hand painting, Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Yuma Dicko, a young Fulani woman in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, touches her forehead to the ground for the afternoon prayer.  The Fulani are typically Muslim.  Traditionally pastoralist, they can be found throughout West Africa, crisscrossing the continent in search of water and green pastures for their cattle. NOT MODEL RELEASED. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
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Ethiopian Orthodox priest and prayer drums in Abreha we Atsbeha rock-hewn church; Tigray Region, Ethiopia
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African reading the Bible. Lome. Togo.
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Cuba, Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus
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Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Kumasi. Ashanti men in traditional dress at Akwasidae Festival.
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Many Mosques of Bani, Burkina Faso
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Rwanda, Ruhengeri, Musanze, Iby'Iwacu Cultural village, wedding ceremony
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Kenya. Lamu women in fashionable Muslim dress.
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Prayer in church Lome. Togo.
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Girl at a church service, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa
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Boys and girls sitting in front of the row of ancestors on the Sultan's Palace of Foumban, Foumban, West Region, Cameroon, Africa
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Theyyam ritual performed in the area of Kannur, Kerala, India.
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India, State of Gujarat, Bhuj, Kutch, Ludiya village. Meghwal Marwari tribe. Traditional clothing and jewelry.
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Women, during a church service, Madang, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
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Faithful outside Karongi Genocide Memorial church, Kibuye, western Rwanda
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Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Kumasi. Ashanti men in traditional dress at Akwasidae Festival.
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Portrait of two Borana women from Ethiopia preparing for dance performance by their tribe at the Turkana Festival. (Editorial Use Only)
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Parish of Saint George.  Catholic baptism ceremony. Priest with Holy Chrism in hands.  Treviso. Italy.
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Woman at a Voodoo ceremony in Dogondoutchi, Niger, Africa
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Close-up of the hands of an old Tammari woman at her families mudbrick building called Tata or Takienta (UNESCO World Heritage Site) of the Tammari people, or Batammariba people in the Tamberma Valley near Kande in the Northern part of Togo.
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A pastor prays for a young child; Gulu, Uganda
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Traditional medicine.
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Women in colorful dresses pray at Sunday service in the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
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Portrait of a Muslim woman, taken in Niger, Ouallam, Niger, Africa
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Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Kumasi. Ashanti men in traditional dress at Akwasidae Festival.
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New Caledonia, Lifou Island, torso of native woman in traditional dress
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Reading Holy Book, Azwa Maryam Church, Zege Peninsula, Near Bahar Dar; Lake Tana, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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A village man studies Koranic verses in the courtyard of his home.
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Woman Praying
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Sunday mass in Notre Dame de la Delivrance basilica, Keur Moussa, Senegal.
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Raised hand with rosary in front of a cross, parish of Sacre Coeur, Turgeau district, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
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Microfinance and saving group in Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception church, Tohoue, Benin
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Voodoo ceremony in Dogondoutchi, Niger, Africa
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Procession outside Lome cathedral, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Sunday mass in Karongi Genocide Memorial church, Kibuye, western Rwanda
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Africa, West Africa, Togo, Voodoo Hospital. Portrait of man in vibrant dress outside shrine to heal the mentally ill in Togo.
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Evangelical church, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Black doll, cigars and shrine at Santeria Temple (Afro-Cuban religion), Trinidad, Cuba, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America
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Africa, West Africa, Togo, Voodoo Hospital. Traditional healer performing voodoo ritual to heal the mentally ill at shrine in Togo.
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Procession outside Lome cathedral, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Voodoo priestess in Togoville
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Woman Praying
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Cambodia, General, Buddhist wedding ceremony. Money attached to wrist.
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Africa, South Africa, Gauteng Province, Johannesburg city, Soweto (South Western Township), Orlando West Quarter, believers in tears during a messa in a gospel church
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Celebration of gamou festival (mawlid, prophet's Muhammad's birthday) in Thies, Senegal
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India Colon, preforms a Santeria ceremony in New York City  on Sunday July 15, 2007.
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Charismatic prayer group, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Men with Christian scriptures, Narga Selassie church, island of Dek, Lake Tana, Gondar region, Ethiopia, Africa
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Mass in St Anthonys catholic church, Hanoukope, Lome, Togo.
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Ethiopia, Amhara Region, Lalibela. Deacon with a silver ceremonial cross at the baptismal pool during the annual Timkat Festival of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church which celebrates Epiphany.
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Sunday mass in Notre Dame de la Delivrance basilica, Keur Moussa, Senegal.
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Covering their bodies from head to toe with whatever they can manage, homeless people sleep out in the open in the shivering cold near the Government Alia Madrasa in Sylhet city's Chowhatta area. According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the Sylhet population was 479,837. The present population growth rate in Sylhet town is 2.5% per year. Considering 10% floating population comes to the city every day, the present (2020) population is estimated to be around 659,176. Sylhet, Bangladesh.
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Sunday mass in Notre Dame de la Delivrance basilica, Keur Moussa, Senegal. Our Father prayer
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Woman dressed in white with purple sash conducting during a church service in Douala, Cameroon, Africa
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Mid section view of a priest holding worry beads, Ethiopia
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Africa, ghana, young dagomba while reading the Koran, 1930.
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Muslim prayer beads, Brazzaville, Congo, Africa
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Woman with vibrating bells, church choir, Bamenda, Cameroon, Africa
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