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  • A women and child is runninmg their hands across prayer wheels making them spin. The prayer wheel all contain variuos prayers to Buddha and it is tradition to spin them to say prayers. Below and around the Boudhanath stupa, part of Nepal's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. are numerous prayers wheels. The stupa is one of the most holy sites of pilgrimage for Buddhists around the world. Near Kahmandu, in the valley.
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  • Prayer wheels, an ubiquitous sight in Bhutan, are revolving cylinders filled with printed prayers that are 'activated' each time the wheel is turned clockwise. Buddhist monks and devotees turn prayer wheels to gain merit and to concentrate the mind on the mantras and prayers they are reciting.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • An old woman offers prayers to the sun at dawn. Tamaraikulum Elders village, Tamil Nadu, India
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  • An elderly Tibetan woman performing her prayers (which she does several times a day) whilst circulating the stupa (chorten in Tibetan), Tangu, Yunnan province, China. Stupas are important religious monuments for Tibetans. This unique religious architectural form expresses significant religious symbolism and presents Buddha's physical presence. It generally consists of three parts; a whitewashed base, a whitewashed cylinder and a crowning steeple or shaft.
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  • A stupa (or chorten in Tibetan), Tangu village, Yunnan province, China. Stupas are important religious monuments for Tibetans. This unique religious architectural form expresses significant religious symbolism and presents Buddha's physical presence. It generally consists of three parts; a whitewashed base, a whitewashed cylinder and a crowning steeple or shaft. Tibetans perform their  prayers several times a day whilst circulating the stupa.
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  • Local Christian women say prayers and make offerings at St Tawdros (St Theodore's) Coptic Orthodox Christian Monastery, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The Copts are an ethno-religious group in North Africa and the Middle East, mainly in the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination. Christianity was the religion of the vast majority of Egyptians from 400–800 A.D. and the majority after the Muslim conquest until the mid-10th century. Today, there are an extimated 9-15m Copts in Egypt.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Muslim Cham women praying in the women's prayer room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • Two Bhutanese woman holding prayer wheels and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest and says a brief prayer in the private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also known as the Vestry) before Mass at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. He is wearing a decorative red Chasuble (the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian Churches that use full vestments, primarily in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches). Saying a brief prayer to a photograph portrait of Cardinal Newman. Father Vipers is about to go out into the main church where his congregation awaits for the Mass, this morning with the theme of St Bartholomew, the Apostle.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • A Bhutanese woman holding a prayer wheel and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • A Bhutanese woman holding a prayer wheel and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • Brother David with Members of the 'House of Prayer' a group of Christian pilgrims at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. Brother David and a handful of evangelicals gather every evening to wait for the messiah's return, praying and speaking in tongues. He was later deported from Israel as the approaching Millenium was attracting doomsday fanatics.
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  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Michelle Dean is a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism and chants her Puja, or prayer in the privacy of her own home, a bed sit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having studied her Buddhism at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Michelle now lives within the larger society rather than the more closed but free community of Samye Ling where many people disaffected with western life or whom have experienced troubled times and sometimes escaping a criminal past, arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
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  • A nun practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditates in silence at a shrine. Seen in almost silhouette, the young woman engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. She is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Young monks chanting in prayer whilst leaning on their prayerr sticks during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A priest in prayer holding a cross during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Two buddhists walk around and spin a gigantic prayer wheel according to their religion in a temple next to the Boudhanath stupa, a world heritage site and a very important place for Buhddist pilgrimage near Kathmandu.
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  • Monks practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditate with dorje bells in the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. They are a western visitors, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007. Dorje is a common male name in Tibet and Bhutan. Dorje can also refer to a small sceptre held in the right hand by Tibetan lamas during religious ceremonies.
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  • The Buddha seen as part of a shrine in the prayer room of Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. A Buddhist shrine provides a focal point for Buddhists when they are meditating, practising puja (worship) and for gatherings of Buddhists studying together. Shrines can vary from a small, simple shrine in the home or garden of a Buddhist, through to the large, ornate shrines or temples found across the globe. At the Samye Ling monastery, most visitors are westerners in this peaceful location for spiritual cleansing and often to find answers to their complicated, modern lives. And many here have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation.
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  • A religious man seemingly at prayer beneath the lion on the Southbank, south side of Westminster Bridge. With a hand outstretched during his private moment, the man is dressed in a dark pinstriped suit and stands still facing the wall with the lettering of the lion - an incongruous reason to pray to a stone animal, unseen above.
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s Chinese man stands in prayer near family vaults in the Muslim and Catholic cemetery, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • A religious man seemingly at prayer beneath the lion on the Southbank, south side of Westminster Bridge. With a hand outstretched during his private moment, the man is dressed in a dark pinstriped suit and stands still facing the wall with the lettering of the lion - an incongruous reason to pray to a stone animal, unseen above.
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  • The UK government has imposed Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules on religious gatherings so a priest accompanies two of his parishioners praying at a makeshift altar on the pavement outside St. Patricks Catholic church in Soho Square, between construction work and some offices, on 22nd June 2020, in London, England. The government is expected soon to relax the social distance rules from two metres to one metre in a bid to restart the economy. However, in the last 24hrs a further 15 have died from Covid, bringing the total today to 42,647.
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  • Buddhist monks and important local dignitaries during the baci ceremony at the Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The baci is a long series of chanted blessings and exhortations to welcome back any ‘kwans’ or body spirits that might have been lost. In traditional Lao culture it is believed that elephants, like humans, have 32 kwan (or souls), vital for health and spiritual wellbeing.<br />
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Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. Elephants are trained and worked by a mahout (handler) whose relationship to the animal is often described as a marriage and can last a lifetime. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction.
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  • A Muslim Cham woman praying in the women's room at the mosque in Van Lam village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The majority of Cham in Vietnam (also known as the Eastern Cham) are Hindu but there is also a sizeable Muslim community of around 39,000 people inhabiting Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces along the coast of central Vietnam.
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  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
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  • The family priest gives a blessing (puja) to Radakrishna and Srikanda Stpathy and their wives in the family shrine in the Stapathy house.The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,ƒÚlost wax,ƒÙ process remains unchanged to this day..
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  • The family priest gives a blessing (puja) to Radakrishna and Srikanda Stpathy and their wives in the family shrine in the Stapathy house.The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,?Úlost wax,?Ù process remains unchanged to this day..
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  • A monk reads the bible, Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery built on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem Israel. The Ethiopians have no property in the Hly Sepulchre only access rights and have a small monastery Deir es-Sultan on the roof of a small annex.
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  • Masseurs at Kalari Kovalikom, begin the day with a session of Kalari Payattu, a martial art discipline which is as much about physical as well as mental strength. Praying is about focusing the mind on the task ahead, Kollengode, Kerala, India
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  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
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  • man prays at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.As dawn breaks, nuns pray outside the tiny chapel of Bet danaghel which was constructed in honour of fifty Christian maiden nuns murdered in the fourth century by the Roman Julian Apostate. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Male relatives are praying to Buddha below the the giant Boudhanath stupa, part of Nepal's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The stupa is one of the most holy sites of pilgrimage for Buddhists around the world. Near Kahmandu, in the valley.
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  • First Communion and Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy at Christ the King Cathedral, Loikaw, Kayah State, Myanmar on 20th November 2016
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  • A Buddhist monk prays in Jordan Road, Kowloon, on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as fragrant harbour or Heung Keung because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • A man is reading holy scriptures below the giant Boudhanath stupa, part of Nepal's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The stupa is one of the most holy sites of pilgrimage for Buddhists around the world. Near Kahmandu, in the valley.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit  nun by the cave that is home, cut into the walls of the tunnels and passages that lead to Bet Giorgis, the most beautiful of the rock hewn churches. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Monks at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
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  • Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 23rd March 2016 in Mo Bye village, Shan State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week.
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  • Women praying at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 21st March 2016 in Mo Bye village, Shan State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week.
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  • A Muslim man, a contract street cleaner, prays near a line of taxi cabs during a cab drivers protest, in Whitehall, on 15th February 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • As Indians celebrate their Independence Day, Kashmiris and Pakistanis pray near India House, the Indian High Commission in Londons Aldwych, during a protest about Indian PM Narendra Modis recent decision to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status, London, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
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  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
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  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India
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  • Devotees of the God Murugan at the Murugan temple in Swamimalai, India.
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  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
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  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
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  • A figurine of Mary and wall decoration in the church of Sant-Michel, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • As Indians celebrate their Independence Day, Kashmiris and Pakistanis pray near India House, the Indian High Commission in Londons Aldwych, during a protest about Indian PM Narendra Modis recent decision to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status, London, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • As Indians celebrate their Independence Day, Kashmiris and Pakistanis pray near India House, the Indian High Commission in Londons Aldwych, during a protest about Indian PM Narendra Modis recent decision to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status, London, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • As Indians celebrate their Independence Day, Kashmiris and Pakistanis pray near India House, the Indian High Commission in Londons Aldwych, during a protest about Indian PM Narendra Modis recent decision to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status, London, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Following the attack on a group of Muslim men outside the Finsbury Park mosque which killed one person and seriously injured another ten, a Muslims enter the Islamic building to pray during disruption, on 19th June 2017, in the borough of Islington, north London, England.
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  • Virgin Mary shrine in the kloister of San Michel in the Italian border town of Brixen-Bressanone in South Tyrol. South Tyrol is a very religious and traditional country. The weekly walk to Mass and the celebration of religious festivals and processions are part of the culture and tradition in South Tyrol. In almost every house you will find a cross on a corner with consecrated palm branches over there. Also in the stable there are consecrated palm branches to keep away every disaster. South Tyroleans are almost all Catholics and quite conservative.
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  • Nigerian evangelist, Rev. Benson Idahosa places his hand on the head of a Born-again Christian during a Christian rally at Butlins Bible Week during Easter in 1986 at Minehead, England. Benson Andrew Idahosa 1938 -1998 was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria.
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  • Buddhists pay tribute to their God at a little temple by the Mekong river in Phnom Penh.
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  • Buddhists pay tribute to their God at a little temple by the Mekong river in Phnom Penh.
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  • A recuperating Muslim community Imam prays at the bedside of a patient who is staying on the Phyllis Friend surgical ward, Royal London Hospital, on 23rd June 1993, in Whitechapel, London England. The Royal London is one of Londons oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomews Hospital Barts, which is a couple of miles away. Because of the cultural profile of East London, patients tend to be from many faiths, speaking many languages.
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  • Devotees of the God Murugan at the Murugan temple in Swamimalai, India.
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  • Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Today marks the first day of the Year of the Ox in accordance with the lunar calendar.Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Today marks the first day of the Year of the Ox in accordance with the lunar calendar.Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Today marks the first day of the Year of the Ox in accordance with the lunar calendar.Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Today marks the first day of the Year of the Ox in accordance with the lunar calendar.Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • New Year worshippers burn incense at Longhua temple in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  .Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • Worshippers crowd into Longhua temple to make their Chinese New Year prayers and well-wishes in Shanghai, China on 26 January, 2009.  Traditionally the first day of the lunar new year is an auspicious day to offer prayers and honor ancestors.
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  • It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. A man has waded out into waist-deep water and stands in the polluted river saying his prayers and offering thanks to his Hindu Gods. He has found inner-peace, a tranquillity surrounded by the chaotic pace of Indian life in this city. The engineering of the bridge stretches across the water as the humanity cross to their businesses and markets. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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  • Brazlian man standing in the sea in contemplation and prayer. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • Brazlian man standing in the sea in contemplation and prayer. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • A view of the flowering rhododendrons and Buddhist prayers flags on the hillside outside the Brokpa ethnic minority village of Merak, Eastern Bhutan
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  • Pilgrims gather for morning prayers at the edge of Met Maryam one of the undergroung rock hewn churches of lalibela. Ethiopia
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  • Two Muslim men and one woman taking time in their day for prayers on the South Bank, London, UK. While this area is very much artistically cultural, London's multi-cultural nature leads to such scenes. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Two Muslim men and one woman taking time in their day for prayers on the South Bank, London, UK. While this area is very much artistically cultural, London's multi-cultural nature leads to such scenes. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Young female member of a Candomble group in traditional green dress, being initiated in a public ceremony on the beach. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • Young female member of a Candomble group in traditional green dress, being initiated in a public ceremony on the beach. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • Young female member of a Candomble group in traditional green dress, being initiated in a public ceremony on the beach. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • Candomble group in traditional white dress taking part in a public ceremony on the beach. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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  • Candomble group in traditional white dress taking part in a public ceremony on the beach. February 2nd is the feast of Yemanja, a Candomble Umbanda religious celebration, where thousands of adherants visit the Rio Vermehlo Red River to make offerings of flowers and prayers, paying their respects to Yemanja, the Orixa goddess of the Sea and water.
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