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Sacred Sites and Memorials

Images of religious and historical sites, including cemeteries, totem poles, and sacred springs, highlighting their cultural significance.

Wooden headstone in an old Russian cemetary near Cordova, Alaska

cromlech Vale Maria do Meio , Nossa Senhora da Graça do Divor ,Évora, Alentejo, Portugal.

Baptismal font made of driftwood, new church of Tasiilaq or Ammassalik, East Greenland, Greenland, North America

Entrance to the Giant Panda Bear Reservation, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Asia Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-11200

Sarah Bartmann (Saartjie Baartman) burial site and national heritage site, Hankey, Eastern Cape. South Africa burial site and national heritage site, Hankey, Eastern Cape. South Africa.

The Hill of Crosses , a famous site of pilgrimage in northern Lithuania.

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The Wutzsee lake in Lindow with the white nun wearing a face mask

USA, Texas, San Antonio, Riverwalk, Statue of Saint Anthonty of Padua citiy's patron Saint. PLEASE CALL FOR SUPER-HI-RES FILES.

Prayer flags on poles on a hillside in Bumthang, Bhutan

Modern sculpture of angels near the Francisan Monastery Krakow Poland

pilgrims of Santiago in Cruz de Ferro (Iron Cross), Foncebadón hill, Bierzo region,, Castile and Leon, Spain.

England, Cornwall, Bodelva. Sculptures representing pagan rituals inside the Warm Temperate Biome of the Eden Project.

Love locks, Wudangshan monastery, Purple Cloud Temple, Wudang Mountains, China, Asia

Entrance to the Giant Panda Bear Reservation, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Asia

The Hill of Crosses is a Catholic and tourist pilgrimage site and one of the sights, Siauliai, Lithuania, Europe

View of Jesus Christ monuments and crosses; Siauliai, Lithuania

Raising the maypole, Holzhausen am Starnberger See, Muensing community, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Holy Shrine, Manmore Gap, Inishowen, Co Donegal, Ireland

Freshly painted colorful graves Freshly painted colorful graves, Day of the Dead celebration at the General Cemetery, Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, Republic of Guatemala, Central America Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22072863

Buddhist totem, Salbyksky Mound, Valley of the kings, Republic of Khakassia, Russia, Europe

England, London, Piccadilly. St James's Church antique market. St James's Church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and opened in 1684, and it was here that the poet William Blake was baptised.

Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (yab-yum)

SEORAKSAN, SOUTH KOREA, APRIL 14, 2017: Kyejoam Seokgul Hermitage shrine and Ulsanbawi rock in Seoroksan National park, South Korea, Asia

A vicar standing with an umbrella in a rose garden.

Tourists looking at totem poles in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Cross of 1705, pertus, Italy

Hill of Crosses, Siauliai, Lithuania

Torii

Metal sculptures of pilgrims on the Alto del Perdon on the Jakobsweg in the middle of a picturesque landscape Metal sculptures of pilgrims on the Alto del Perdon on the Jakobsweg in the middle of a picturesque landscape of

Lithuania, Siauliai, Hill of Crosses, Pilgrims on hill

Easter fountain, Bieberach, Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Wayside shrine, Hundsalmjoch, Brandenberg Alps, Tyrol, Austria

Wood tombstone and coffins on Barter Island near Kaktovik, North Slope, Summer in Arctic Alaska

Hanga Roa Cemetery, Easter Island, Chile, South America

Bonnet macaque sitting on statue head Kolhapur Maharashtra India Asia Copyright: xVishwasxLipte/DinodiaxPhotox

Craft on Titicaca Traditional craft of the Titicaca Lake, Puno - Peru Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 21080707

Stick pilgrims cross symbols in The Way of Saint James at La Rioja Logrono

Buddhist prayer flags high in the Himalayan Mountains in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Wayside shrine: the Assumption of Mary into Heaven/Triumphant Christ, from 1756, Ahaus-Wuellen, Muensterland

Historical cemetery with wooden crucifixes in Krün, Upper Bavaria,

WA, Forks, Loggers Memorial

Barrels of wine donated to the Meiji Shrine, in Shibuya, Tokyo. This Shinto shrine that is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shoken. The shrine does not contain the emperor's grave, which is located at Fushimi-momoyama, south of Kyoto.

Statues of the three bishops on the Petersberg in Erfurt in winter statues of the three bishops on the Petersberg in Erfurt in winter

Dobroslav, Ukraine - 11.19.2018. Grieving angel Memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor 1932-1933 in the Odessa region, Ukraine. Monument to the victims of the Holodomor in Dobroslav, Ukraine

Chuppah

Black metal chain with large links in front of St. Mary Church in Old Town of Krakow in Poland

A woman walks a labyrinth at Circle Pines camp, an aid to meditation and spiritualism, Prairieville, Michigan, USA, North America

Doagh Famine Village Museum, Ballyliffin, Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, Ireland, British Isles, Europe

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania Hill of Crosses, Lithuania, religious monument in the europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/ViktorxGolenkovsx 6100985

Canoe detail showing figures during ritualistic greeting ceremony in Uwus, Asmat Region, South Papua Province, Indonesia

Path of Hope at the Point Alpha memorial site between Geisa in Thuringia and Rasdorf in Hesse, the former inner-German border. The art project of the Point Alpha Foundation is based on the Christian Way of the Cross and its 14 stations recall the suffering of the people in the communist dictatorships of Central and Eastern Europe. Here Station 5 Solidarity, Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross, Geisa, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Hill of Crosses, Siauliai, Lithuania

Dead boards, Bavarian Forest National Park, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Prayer flags in the shape of auspicious umbrellas bless the world in Derge county - Kham (E. Tibet), Sichuan Province, China

Chinakathoor Pooram festival, Kerala, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Wooden figure of a family in the park of the celtic community of Schwarzenbach, Lower Austria, Europe

Traditionelles Geisterhaus aus buddhistischer Kosmologie im Wald, Thailand Traditional spirit house from Buddhist cosmology in forest, Thailand LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/MilanxVasicekx 12777163

Monk Heinrich at the church of Steinkirchen in the Alte Land, district of Stade, Germany, Europe

mit bunten Ostereiern geschmückter Osterbrunnen auf der Alten Steinbrücke in Drosendorf an der Aufseß in der Fränkischen Schweiz, Bayern, Deutschland *** with colourful Easter eggs Geschmückter Osterbrunnen at the Old Stone bridge in Drosendorf to the Aufsess in the Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany

Austria, Tyrol, Stams, Abbey Stams, Cistercian cloister, beekeeping, beekeeper father Norbert

Path of Hope at the Point Alpha memorial site between Geisa in Thuringia and Rasdorf in Hesse, the former inner-German border. The art project of the Point Alpha Foundation ties in with the Christian Way of the Cross and with its 14 stations recalls the suffering of the people in the communist dictatorships of Central and Eastern Europe. Here Station 1 Arbitrariness, Jesus is sentenced to death, Geisa, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Close cropped shot of cross curved into the trunk of a Beech tree.

Seven crosses with the names of Chris Gueffroy, Wolf Olaf Muszinski, Lutz Haberland, Axel Hannemann, Philipp Held, Werner Probst and Ingo Krueger reminding at the Reichstags bank of the refugees who got shot while trying to leave the GDR, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Aerial view of a graveyard and tombstones.Johannesburg,South Africa

Buddhist flags on a hill near the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic of Russia. Buddhist flags on a hill near the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic of Russia Copyright: xZoonar.com/RUDxDMITRIIx 19143039

Thailand, Ayutthaya, Wat Lokaya Suttha in Ayutthaya Reclining Buddha

Male grave, Himba cemetery in the Kaokoveld, Namibia, grave, burial site, Africa

Sign post about peace; Paro, Bhutan

William Francis Ganong Statue - St. Stephen, New Brunswick

tumbas de colores, celebracion del dia de muertos en el Cementerio General, Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, República de Guatemala, América Central.

Switzerland, Canton of Grisons, Müstair, Benedictine abbey St. Johann in the Münstertal, sisters, garden, sister Benedikta in the monastery gardens

North Korea, Hoechang Province. Graves of fallen Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War, within the Chinese People's Volunteers Cemetery, where Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, is also laid to rest.

Memorial to victims of Bali Bombing Coogee Australia Memorial to the victims of the Bali bombing, Coogee Beachh at sunrise. This memorial is a tribute to Australian spirit of endurance. The three linked figures signify family, friends and community. Bowed in sorrow and remembrance, they comfort, support and protect each other. Individually, each figure could be easily toppled, but joined together they form a strong and supported whole structure. Copyright: xZoonar.com/Leah-AnnexThompsonx 6705177

Switzerland, Canton of Grisons, Müstair, Benedictine abbey St. Johann in the Münstertal, sisters, garden, sister Johanna

Interpretive sign at Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Statues in a visitors center.

Belarus, Minsk, ""The Island of Tears"", Memorial to Afghanistan War

Zapotec guide Juan Santiago Hernandez is performing a traditional Zapotec ceremony at the ceremonial site of the Hill of the Jaguar, an important Zapotec religious site, close to the former mining village of Lachatao, in the Sierra Juarez mountain range, near Oaxaca, southern Mexico.

Anchor as a monument, near Zion's Church. Greenland. (Editorial Use Only)

Customs, Osterbrunnen, Kultplatz, Steinerner Bogen with a picture stick in honor of the St. Nothburga, at the Church of St. Georg in Pfaffendorf, Altenkunstadt, Lichtenfels district, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Madrid, 09/13/2012. Report for Madrid of the route of the Via Crucis of the Valley of the Fallen. Photo: Jaime García ARCHDC.

Islamic graves with headstones at the Laalou muslim cemetery with view on the Atlantic Ocean in the city Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Kenitra, Morocco.

Eisskulptur Zwar in Diamanten, aber nicht kostenlos auf dem Weihnachtsfest. Jekaterinburg. Russland Yekaterinburg, Russia January 07, 2021: Ice sculpture Though in diamonds, but not free at the Christmas Festival Star of Bethlehem near the Church on Blood the work of Konstantin and Alexei Evdokimov Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxPistyazhnyukxSergxZastavkinx 22658599

The recostructed Thjodhildes church in Eriks the red first settelment Brattahlid, known today as Qassiarsuk, South Greenland.

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

View of ghostly figures draped in tattered white fabric and withered corn stalks against a textured brick facade, New York, New York, United States.

Chesma Church. Othodox Cemetery. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Man standing behind headless statue in the temple of the Cham group B and C, My Son, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia

USA, New York, Bethel. Woodstock Festival monument

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