Sacred Elephant in the Perahera Procession, Kandy, Ceylon, c1890, (1910). Artist: Alfred William Amandus Plate
Sacred Elephant in the Perahera Procession, Kandy, Ceylon, c1890, (1910). From The Hundred Best Views of Ceylon. [Plate Ltd, Colombo, Kandy & Nuwara Eliya, 1910]
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
Avenue of sacred images after excavation, Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, c1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Avenue of sacred images after excavation, Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, 1905. It was Ramses II who erected this splendid avenue of sphinxes, or really of rams, though they are often called sphinxes
The sacred rock, where the Temple Alter stood, Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The sacred rock, where the Temple Alter stood, Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1900. Stereoscopic slide. From a series called Travelling in the Holy Land Through the Stereoscope, by Jesse Hurlbut