Worshipping Collection (#16)

Worshipping before an idol, Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Worshipping before an idol, Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma, 1908. Buddhist tradition holds that the Shwedagon Pagoda was built before the Buddha died in 486 BC

Marble Buddha in a pagoda, Mandalay, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Marble Buddha in a pagoda, Mandalay, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

In the Court of the Jumma Mosque, Delhi, India, 1903. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
In the court of the Jumma Mosque, Delhi, India, 1903. Detail from a stereoscopic card

Procession to a Buddhist temple, Diyatalawa, Ceylon, c1945

A mullah teaching a prayer to a young man, Iraq, 1925. Artist: A Kerim
A mullah teaching a prayer to a young man, Iraq, 1925. A print from Baghdad, Camera Studio Iraq, published by Hasso Bros, Rotophot AG, Berlin, 1925

Religious ceremonies, Iraq, 1925. Artist: A Kerim
Religious ceremonies, Iraq, 1925. A print from Baghdad, Camera Studio Iraq, published by Hasso Bros, Rotophot AG, Berlin, 1925

Temple of Buddha, Canton, China, 1843. Artist: WH Capone
Temple of Buddha, Canton, China, 1843

An Offering, 1889. A print from Figaro Exposition, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, Limited, 4 Stationers Hall Court, London, 1889

The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. Artist: The American Colony
The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. The wall, also known as the Western Wall is the only remnant of the Temple in Jerusalem, the holiest building in Judaism

The Washing of the Feet, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Artist: The American Colony
The Washing of the Feet, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. A print from Customs of the World, Volume II Hutchinson and Co, Paternoster Row, London

The Temple of Ten Thousand Idols in Japan, c1860. Artist: A Thom
The Temple of Ten Thousand Idols in Japan, c1860. A print from The Faiths of the World, a Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Sects Their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, Vol I

Worship According to the Armenian Church. Artist: T Brown
Worship According to the Armenian Church. A print from The Faiths of the World, a Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Sects Their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, Vol I

The Jewish Feast of Purim or Cots, 1712 (19th century). Artist: James Gardner
The Jewish Feast of Purim or Cots, 1712 (19th century). Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from the plot by Haman to annihilate them

A Japanese Preacher. Artist: R Young
A Japanese Preacher. A print from The Faiths of the World, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Sects, Volume II, by Reverend James Gardner, A Fullarton & Co, London & Edinburgh

The Way of the Cross in Catalonia, 1895. Artist: Professor Berthold
The Way of the Cross in Catalonia, 1895. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1895

Friday prayers, Jama Masjid, Delhi, India, early 20th century. The Jama Masjid is one of the largest and most important mosques in India. Commissioned by Shah Jahan, it was completed in 1656

A tombstone of Amennebi, c1550 BC (1936). Limestone. Found in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Plate taken from The Art of Ancient Egypt

Scene at a synagogue, the great day of atonement, 6th October 1897. Artist: Isaac Snowman
Scene at a synagogue, the great day of atonement (Yom Kippur), 6th October 1897. A print from The Illustrated London News, 9th October 1897

Porch of Regensburg (Ratisbon) Cathedral, Germany, 19th century. Artist: J Lewis
Porch of Regensburg (Ratisbon) Cathedral, Germany, 19th century. Regensburgs Gothic cathedral was begun in the 1270s, replacing the previous Romanesque building that was destroyed by fire

Coming and going under long rows of sacred torii, Shinto temple of Inari, Kyoto, Japan, 1904
Coming and going under long rows of sacred torii, Shinto Temple of Inari, Kyoto, Japan, 1904. Inari is the Shinto god of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes and industry

Devout woman stroking a bronze bull to cure rheumatism, Kitano Tenjin temple, Kyoto, Japan, 1904. The temple is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the scholar

Worshippers crossing the semi-circular bridge to Kameido Temple beyond, looking north, Tokyo, Japan, 1904. A Shinto temple dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane (845-903)

Hall of Columns in the Great Temple of Karnak, Egypt, 1933-1934. Painted piers showing the Pharaoh Amenhotep II offering a lotus flower to Amun, and Amenhotep III with the goddess Hathor

Parsis worshipping the New Moon, Bombay, India, 1903. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Parsis worshipping the New Moon, Bombay, India, 1903. A Parsi (sometimes spelled Parsee), is a member of a close-knit Zoroastrian community based primarily in India

An Image worshipped by the Chingulais... late 18th century
An Image worshipped by the Chingulais as the Deity who presides over Health, Wisdom, plenty etc, late 18th century. European depiction of Ceylonese people worshipping the Hindu god Ganesh

Sethos I and his son Ramses II worshiping their ancestors, Abydos, Egypt, c1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Sethos I and his son Ramses II worshiping their ancestors, Abydos, Egypt, 1905. That little column of hieroglyphics before Ramses, just under his hands

Mount Gerizim, where the Samaritans worshipped, Palestine, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Mount Gerizim, where the Samaritans worshipped, Palestine, 1900. Steps lead to Jacobs Well. From a series called Travelling in the Holy Land Through the Stereoscope, by Jesse Hurlbut

The Sabbath in Vaudois, France, c13th century (1849)
The Sabbath in Vaudois, France, 13th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 13th century manuscript illustration held by the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

The Temples of Saturn and Vespasian, the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, 19th century. Artist: Ettling
The Temples of Saturn and Vespasian, the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, 19th century

Japanese women washing their hands prior to entering a temple, 1936. Artist: Sport & General
Japanese women washing their hands prior to entering a temple, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

The Shwe Dragon pagoda, Rangoon, 19th century. Artist: C Kegan Paul
The Shwe Dragon pagoda, Rangoon, 19th century

The city of Thyatira (Akhisar), Turkey, 19th century. Artist: Sam Fisher
The city of Thyatira (Akhisar), Turkey, 19th century

Votive picture of Doge Andrea Gritti, 1937. Woodcut after the burnt picture by Titian formaly in the Ducal Palace, Venice, 1531

Henry VI before the Virgin and Child, c1420. King Henry VI, supported by St Katharine, kneels before Mary and her son. From the Psalter of Henry VI, produced in France

Coolies at worship, Jamaica, c1905. Artist: Adolphe Duperly & Son
Coolies at worship, Jamaica, c1905. Group portrait of Indian immigrants who came to the island as indentured workers. Illustration from Picturesque Jamaica, by Adolphe Duperly & Son, (England, c1905)

Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields. Celebration of High Mass on Christmas Day, c1841. Artist: Henry Melville
Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields. Celebration of High Mass on Christmas Day, c1841. St. Mary Moorfields, built by John Newman in 1820

Peasant praying before a row of statues of the God of Light, Daiya river, Nikko, Japan, 1904
Peasant praying before a row of statues of Buddha, Daiya river, Nikko, Japan, 1904. Stereoscopic slide

The Virgin and Child with an Angel, c1480. Artist: Hans Memling
The Virgin and Child with an Angel, c1480. Painting held at The National Gallery, London. From A History of Painting, Volume IV by Haldane MacFall. [T. C. and E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1911]

Maarten van Nieuwenhove, from The Diptych of Maerten van Nieuwenhove, 1487. Artist: Hans Memling
Maarten van Nieuwenhove, from The Diptych of Maerten van Nieuwenhove, 1487. Painting held in the Memling Museum, Bruges, Belgium. From A History of Painting, Volume IV by Haldane MacFall. [T. C

The Adoration of the Kings, c1510, (1938). Artist: Jan Gossaert
The Adoration of the Kings, c1510. Painting held in The National Gallery, London. From World-Famous Paintings edited by J. Greig Pirie [W. & G. Foyle, Ltd, London, 1938.]

The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, c1920s-c1930s(?). The wall, also known as the Western Wall is the only remnant of the Temple in Jerusalem, the holiest building in Judaism

The Last Muster, 1875 (c1880-1882). A print from Modern Artists, prepared under the direction of FG Dumas, JS Virtue and Co, London, c1880-1882

Interior of Sheba, Japan. Worshippers in a temple

Stonehenge, 1786. Artist: William Byrne
Stonehenge, 1786

Jumala, Wirku-Accha. A deity of Lapland, 1727-1738. Illustration from Naaukeurige Beshryving der Uitwendige Godtsdienst - Plichten by Bernard Picart and Abraham Moubach, (Amsterdam 1727-1738)

The Temple of Ten Thousand Idols in Japan, 1884. Artist: A Thom
The Temple of Ten Thousand Idols in Japan, 1884

Madonna and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele, 1436, (1870). A wood engraving after a painting in the collection of the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

The Blessed Bread, c1879, (1912). Artist: Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
The Blessed Bread, c1879, (1912). A colour print from Famous Paintings, with an introduction by Gilbert Chesterton, Cassell and Company, (London, New York, Toronto, 1912)

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