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The tomb of Osman I in Bursa. Ottoman books, probably from one of the public libraries of Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Books, Bursa, Funerary monuments, Interiors, Istanbul, Libraries, Mausoleum of Osman I (Osman Gazi Türbesi), Mausoleums, Religious practices, Sultan Osman I / Osman Gazi, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

Muslim children in their circumcision costume. Animals destined to be sacrificed on the day of Kurban Bayram.

Tags: Animals, Bayram, Children, Circumcision, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Goats, Human types, Jewellery, Muslim ceremonies, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim prayer, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Muslim woman doing her prayers. Depiction of the sequence of Muslim prayer.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Muslim prayer, Religious practices, Women

Muslim man doing his prayers. Depiction of the sequence of Muslim prayer.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Muslim prayer, Religious practices

Muslim man performing ritual ablution before prayer.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Houses, Human types, Interiors, Muslim prayer, Religious practices, Servants, Turkey

The first four Caliphs, heirs of Prophet Muhammad, in chronological order: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Tags: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Books, Caliphs, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Islam, Quran, Religious leaders, Religious practices, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan

Adam and Eved according to Islamic tradition. Prophet Muhammad ascends to heaven. Drawing of the Mosque of Mecca (Al-Masjid al-Haram) and the Holy Rock (Kaaba).

Tags: Adam, Al-Masjid al-Haram Mosque, Architecture and built environment, Cherubs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eve, Human types, Kaaba, Mecca, Mosques, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Religious practices, Saudi Arabia

The Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Children, Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

A sarcophagus from the Tombs of the Kings complex outside Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Horses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Reliefs, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem), Women

The cave of Jeremiah in Jerusalem, with reconstruction of the prophet's tomb. The city of Jerusalem in the background.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Israel, Jeremiah, Jerusalem, Natural environment, Palestine, Religious practices

The Calvary Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Golgotha, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

The Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

Reconstruction of Salomon's temple in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Natural environment, Palestine, Religious practices, Solomon's Temple (Jerusalem), Walls, Walls of Jerusalem

The cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus, Syria.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa (Tartus), Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Tartus / anc. Antarados

View of the mosque built on the site of the temple of Bacchus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baskets, Children, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Houses, Human types, Latakia / anc. Laodicea, Mosques, Religious practices, Shops, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Syria, Women

The mosque built on the site of the temple of Dionysus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Latakia / anc. Laodicea, Mosques, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Temple of Bacchus (Latakia), Women

Cemetery near Bucharest.

Tags: Animals, Bucarest, Cemeteries, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Religious practices, Romania, Romanians, Social sphere and everyday life

The church of Saint Nicholas in Curtea de Argeş, Romania.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Curtea de Argeș, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Religious practices, Romania, Romanians, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Priest from Mendenitsa.

Tags: Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Mendenitsa, Phthiotis, Priests, Religious practices

The church of Hagioi Apostoloi in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hagioi Apostoloi (Thessaloniki), Human types, Macedonia, Religious practices, Thessaloniki, Views, Women

The monastery of Saint Panteleimon at Mount Athos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Byzantine monuments, Greece, Macedonia, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint Panteleimon (Mount Athos), Mount Athos, Natural environment, Religious practices

Muslim ascetes, probably members of Dervish orders, whom Thevet encountered in Damascus.

Tags: Damascus, Human types, Religious practices, Syria

A muezzin calls the faithful to come and pray at the mosque. Muslims doing their ritual cleansing before entering the mosque to pray.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Muslim prayer, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

The Sultan rides to the mosque to pray on a Friday, escorted by a formal procession.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Ottoman officials, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

Orthodox church in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Damietta, Egypt, Religious practices, Views

Church and mosque on the site where God gave the tablets of the Ten Commandments to Moses on the Holy Summit or Mount Moses (Gebel Mousa). Monastery of the Forty Martyrs. The summit of Saint Catherine, on which, according to tradition, the Angels laid down the remains of the Saint.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Egypt, Mount Horeb, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mount Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church of the Apparition of the Virgin on Mount Horeb. The site where God spoke to Moses on the Holy Summit or Mount Moses (Gebel Musa).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Chapel of Prophet Elias (Mount Horeb), Churches, Egypt, Mount Horeb, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

The Burning Bush of Moses at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Burning Bush of Moses (Mount Sinai), Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Natural environment, Pilgrimages, Plants, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai)

The remains of Saint Catherine in the katholikon of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Saint Catherine, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai)

Katholikon of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Views

Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai)

Tomb of Saint Barbara, possibly in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. View of the Pyramids of Giza; according to the author, they were the granaries of the Pharaohs of Egypt, built by Joseph son of Jacob.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Egypt, Pilgrimages, Pyramids, Pyramids of Egypt, Religious practices, Tomb of Santa Barbara (Egypt), Views

Church of the Virgin on the ouskirts of Cairo, on the site of the cave where the Holy Family hid while in Egypt (Santa Maria della Cava). Church outside Cairo near the former, (Santa Maria della Scala), with a red column which the Virgin hugged, leaving an indelible white imprint.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Egypt, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

Church on the outskirts of Beirut, where according to tradition Saint George killed the dragon.

Tags: Beirut, Churches, Lebanon, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

The tools used by Noah to construct the Ark. Port of Beirut.

Τα εργαλεία της Κιωτού απεικονίζονται σε σχέση με την επίσκεψη του περιηγητή σε σπήλαιο στον δρόμο από τη Δαμασκό προς τη Βηρυττό, στο…

Tags: Beirut, Boats and ships, Houses, Lebanon, Noah’s Ark, Pilgrimages, Ports, Religious practices, Tools, Views

Mount Ararat with Noah's Ark.

Tags: Animals, Armenia, Mount Ararat / Ağrı Dağı, Natural environment, Noah’s Ark, Religious practices, Turkey, Views

Church on the route from Damascus to Beirut, site of Noah's tomb according to tradition.

Tags: Beirut, Churches, Damascus, Holy Land, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Syria, Tomb of Noah, Views

Site outside Damascus where it was believed that Cain killed Abel.

Tags: Cain and Abel, Damascus, Religious practices, Syria, Views

The site where Paul was baptized by Ananias. The site on the route to Damascus where Paul converted to Christianism.

Tags: Churches, Damascus, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Syria, Views

The place where Prophet Eijah was born, The mountain where Jesus ate after ending his fast and where Satan tried to tempt him.

Tags: Holy Land, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

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