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Post by tod2 on Dec 5, 2010 16:20:17 GMT
I wondered if other AnyPorters have photos of strange and unfamiliar religious ceremonies? This group is from Zimbabwe I believe, and recently took up residence in one of our open green spaces (not really a park just a stretch of grass). They were going hammer & tongs all day everyday until the municipality chased them off for messing up the area. (There are no toilets etc. anywhere near, and fires were lit to cook food). Now I notice they come on weekends only - I photographed them this morning holding their very unusual service - women all dressed like the Virgin Mary( or nuns) in white sitting on one side of what appears to be a white cross made of fabric, and the men opposite in white as well. The Head Priest wore a red band. Here they are calm and peaceful but I have seen the priests repeatedly hitting the gathering on their heads with a stick.
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Post by hwinpp on Dec 6, 2010 6:48:10 GMT
We have the Cao Dai next door in Vietnam.
Two of their saints are Sun Yat Sen and Victor Hugo...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2013 18:06:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2013 18:07:52 GMT
Sikh Temple in Ludhiana, India.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2013 18:32:22 GMT
I have thought a dozen times of starting a thread with that title and I am glad that somebody has finally done it... However, I will have to hunt for quite some time to find the photos that made me want to start the thread...
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Post by htmb on Dec 8, 2013 2:22:16 GMT
There's a link titled "religion" but it doesn't appear to be active.
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Post by questa on Dec 8, 2013 9:29:10 GMT
I have many photos of places of worship covering all different religions. Would it be a good idea for us to label the city or country where the photo was taken? I know for me , I sometimes get frustrated to see a great picture and no location given.Anyway...here is St Nicholas Cathedral (Russian Orthodox) in Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Post by mossie on Dec 8, 2013 15:13:47 GMT
This is the Church of the Virgin Mary at Elham Kent
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Post by questa on Dec 8, 2013 22:29:07 GMT
Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. The cathedral in a traditional timber village. Built from all timber and no nails used, just wooden pegs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 23:00:21 GMT
So many different kinds of places of worship. (Questa, yes I think it's good to label each photo). Here is one of the Golden Temple. Amritsar:
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Post by questa on Dec 9, 2013 1:08:08 GMT
Deyana...your photo is beautiful. It brings back the sense of peace of this lovely place. I hope you don't mind if I post one of mine of Amritsar.
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Post by questa on Dec 9, 2013 5:40:43 GMT
Three more, then I'll shut up for a while! I am aiming for variety. The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. They said it was the biggest in the world. A Shiva Shrine in Delhi, India. I love the way it is right among the peoples' daily lives. The Great Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. Newly built of white marble. Sleek modern architecture and very cool.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 0:06:20 GMT
Nice ones, questa. It's interesting to see how the two cameras take the same object (the Golden Temple). What year where you in India? Can we hope for a thread about India?
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Post by questa on Dec 11, 2013 3:00:03 GMT
Thanks, Deyana. Looks like only you and I are into these things. I had planned a fairly short cover of NW Pakistan next, just as episodes of what happened at each stop. I won't do a long saga like Iran turned out to be. Everyone was losing interest, including me! I copped a severe dose of bacillary dysentery in Jaipur which made it difficult to take pics for a couple of weeks. I'll post a few India, just for you
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Post by htmb on Dec 11, 2013 3:20:17 GMT
I'm enjoying seeing your photos of religious places, and will get around to posting a few of my own eventually.
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Post by fumobici on Dec 11, 2013 4:54:46 GMT
That Golden Temple takes the cake, amazing. I'm going to recycle a photo I posted some time ago--the mosaiced presbytery at S. Vitale in Revenna.
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Post by questa on Dec 11, 2013 5:41:39 GMT
> fumobici That is a magnificent ceiling and made me realise something I had not noticed before.
If you remember all the domes and tile work in the Iran thread...it was all cool colours and, while lovely in itself, lost out on the warm colours of your ceiling. All those golds and browns and reds make up for a warm, inviting interior.
Keep posting lovely things.
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Post by questa on Dec 11, 2013 5:56:09 GMT
The Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Damaged by a truck bomb during the civil war, but now repaired.
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Post by questa on Dec 11, 2013 8:21:45 GMT
This Balinese religion temple is set in the famous Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali. Although ostensibly Hindu, Balinese religion is mostly ancient animism with good and bad spirits, magic, omens, rituals and loaded with superstition. However, it has had the power to hold the Balinese to their culture in spite of millions of tourists invading with new ideas.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 13:40:50 GMT
questa, thank you I am enjoying this thread very much.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 11, 2013 16:54:24 GMT
I am enjoying them as well and hope to get into town with my camera so I can add too!
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Post by questa on Dec 12, 2013 0:08:38 GMT
mich64...I'm looking forward to your additions. Meanwhile (sorry, can't help myself) this is Bayan Belek Mosque, the first mosque built in Lombok, Indonesia by Muslim missionaries in the 16th century. It is 9 metres X 9 metres square, earth floor and built with timber poles supporting the bamboo roof. The walls are woven bamboo. The last pic shows the clever way of using slats of bamboo for roofing. Each slat is fastened with its open side up to form a curved drain, so with the thick layer of these the rain doesn't leak into the mosque. The Muslims in this area are of the wetu telu sect. Pray X 3 per day, not 5, and only fast a few days in Ramadan. The mosque is still in use.
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Post by questa on Dec 13, 2013 9:14:19 GMT
The Ba'hai church in Delhi. Looks like an opening lotus flower. Pools of water carry inside the building which cools it. Also the light reflects ripples on the interior walls and ceiling. Statue behind the altar in St Mary's Catholic Church, Negombo, Sri Lanka. The people in this area are mostly descended from Portuguese families.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2013 10:02:06 GMT
The temple of the Jade Emperor in Saigon
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Post by rikita on Dec 15, 2013 23:33:54 GMT
The Santuario del Senor de Quyllur Rit'i is high up in the Andes, reachable only on foot or horse. In the 1780 it is said a shepherd boy befriended a young boy named Manuel up there, who helped him so his herd prospered. When then the shepherd went to town to buy money, he took a sample of Manuel's clothes - and it turned out they were clothes like those only worn by the bishop. So the bishop sent his men up there, but when they wanted to grab Manuel, he turned into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it. The shepherd thought his friend had been hurt and died on the spot and was buried there. That is the catholic story about the place, but the santuary and the yearly festival mixes it with indigenous traditions, as I guess is common in the area. Apparently its dating is connected to the winter solstice and the disappearance and reapperance of stars in the sky. People from the villages of the area journey there on foot, some taking several weeks for the journey, playing music on the way. Other people these days of course just take a bus to the nearest village and then walk up the last four hours. This last bit of journey is usually done at night, so in the darkness there are thousands of people walking up the hills. The festival last several days, with there being a big church service on the last day. During that, holy water is blessed that is made out of ice some of the men get from the glacier in the mountains above. Throughout the festival different groups from different villages show traditional dances. These guys I think are ukukus, though they have pulled up their masks. They were showing dance-fights with their whips, but also threatened to whip people who wore a hat in the vicinity of the church, speaking in high pitched voices.
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Post by questa on Dec 16, 2013 2:05:04 GMT
I find it interesting how each religion builds on and absorbs the one before. You don't have to dig far to find the starting point for all of them was Sun, stars, solstices and equinoxes, and the coming of the rains.
How did religion get so complicated?!
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Post by htmb on Jul 28, 2014 3:03:45 GMT
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia
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Post by bjd on Jul 28, 2014 6:33:19 GMT
Inside the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. Bach worked here as well as in the Thomaskirche. This one was the one of the headquarters for 1989 anti-givernment protests in East Germany.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 28, 2014 16:50:45 GMT
There have been some fantastic photos since I started this thread. I hope to add some more after my trip to Paris.
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Post by amboseli on Jul 28, 2014 18:09:11 GMT
The Mezquita in Córdoba
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