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The Virgin of Iber (Bleeding Vrefokratousa). The icon was kept at the Gate of the Resurrection (today part of the Red Square) in Moscow. According to the tradition, the Virgin bleeds because she was stabbed in the cheek by an iconoclast.

Tags: Icons, Moscow, Religious practices, Russia, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

Funerary procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hanoi, Human types, Kingdom of Tonkin, Kings, Officials, Processions, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tonkin, Vietnam

Quranic inscription.

Tags: Inscriptions, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Turkey

Pagodas at the kingdom of Tonkin (Vietnam). In the foreground, gymnosophists and priests in ceremonial dress doing their prayers.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Gymnosophists, Human types, Kingdom of Tonkin, Priests, Religious practices, Sculptures, Social sphere and everyday life, Tonkin, Vietnam

Weapon used by the Muslim fakirs of India.

Tags: India, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Weapons

Indian gymnosophist.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Gymnosophists, Human types, India, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

The lance by which Jesus Christ was pierced on the cross.

Tags: Armenia, Holy Scripture, Kecharis monastery, Religious practices, Yerevan

Whirling dervish of the Mevlevi order.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervish orders, Dervishes, Human types, Istanbul, Mevlevi order, Prayer, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey

View of Mar Elias monastery on the route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Caravans, Equids, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mar Elias Monastery (Jerusalem), Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Travel, Views

View of Ramla, Israel, with some of the main sights of the city. G. Ruins of aqueduct, probably of the Roman period. A. Monastery of Saint George. B. The White Mosque, built in the Ummayad era; in the 16th and 17th centuries it was believed that this was initially a church dedicated to the Forty Martyrs of Nablus. D. The house of the province governor.

View of the Mount of Olives at Jerusalem, with some of the main pilgrim sites: The Church of Pater Noster (Eleona Basilica) and the chapel of the Ascension(A). The church of the Dormition of the Virgin (K). The Tomb of Absalom (M).

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Chapel of the Ascension (Jerusalem), Church of the Dormition of Our Lady (Jerusalem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives (Jerusalem), Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Tomb of Absalom (Jerusalem), Views

View of Jerusalem, with some of the major pilgrim sites, among which the putative house of Caiaphas (A), the Dome of the Rock (B), Mount Olive (E), and the house in which Judas Iskariot stayed, according to tradition. However, the Holy Sepulchre is not shown.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dome of the Rock - Qubbat As-Sakhrah (Jerusalem), Holy Sepulchre, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Mount of Olives (Jerusalem), Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

View of Jerusalem A. House of Pontius Pilate. B. Dome of the Rock, mosque built at the site of Solomon's Temple. C. Ecce Homo arch.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dome of the Rock - Qubbat As-Sakhrah (Jerusalem), Ecce Homo Arch (Jerusalem), Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Portrait of Emerich Tekkesi, head of the Protestants of the Austrian territories of Hungary.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Emmerich Tekkesi, Equids, Holy Roman Empire, Horses, Hungary, Portraits, Protestants, Religious practices, Second Siege of Vienna (1683), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

View of Ahmedabad, India.

Tags: Ahmedabad, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Houses, Human types, India, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views, Walls

The cathedral of Etchmiadzin (4th century) at Vagharshapat, Armenia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Armenia, Armenian architecture, Armenian monuments, Cathedral of Etchmiadzin, Churches, Religious practices, Vagharshapat

View of Nazareth with the Orthodox Basilica of the Annunciation.

Tags: Animals, Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Church of the Annunciation (Nazareth), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Israel, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

Mount Tabor, Israel.

Tags: Human types, Israel, Mount Tabor, Natural environment, Religious practices, Views

Muslim cemetery at Eyüp, Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Cemetery of Eyüp, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eyüp / byz. Kosmidion, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Muslim cemeteries, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

1. Mount Sinai as seen from the Red Sea. 2. The Rock of Meribah out of which issued water when smitten by the rod of Moses. 3, 4 Summits of Mount Sinai (Mount Moses and Mount Horeb). 5. Mount Horeb. 6. Mount Carmel.

Tags: Egypt, Holy Scripture, Israel, Mount Carmel, Mount Sinai, Mount Tabor, Mountains, Natural environment, Palestine, Religious practices, Rock of Meribah

The church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. The Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre. The interior of the Aedicule.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Chapel of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre), Holy Sepulchre, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

View of Jerusalem with the main sights and monuments of the city.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Maps, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views, Walls of Jerusalem, Women

The Cave of the Apocalypse, Patmos island. The monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Patmos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Cave of Saint John the Theologian (Patmos), Caves, Churches, Dodecanese, Greece, Holy Scripture, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (Patmos), Patmos, Religious practices, Views

Ottoman carriage. Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order.

Tags: Animals, Bovids, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Human types, Istanbul, Mevlevi order, Modes of transport, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Muslim cemetery at Istanbul, possibly at Üsküdar, on the Asian coast of the Bosporus.

Tags: Bithynia, Cemeteries, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Consecrated bread and eucharistic elements prepared for the Divine Liturgy.

Tags: Divine Liturgy / Holy Communion, Greece, Religious practices, Sacred Vessels, Turkey

The Patriarch of Istanbul and a deacon during the service of the Divine Liturgy.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Deacons, Divine Liturgy / Holy Communion, Istanbul, Patriarchate of Constantinople, Patriarchs, Priests, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Vestments (liturgical garments)

Vestments (liturgical garments) worn by metropolitan bishops, Patriarchs, priests and deacons.

Tags: Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Istanbul, Metropolitan bishops, Patriarchs, Priests, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Vestments (liturgical garments)

Plan of the Patriarchal Church of Saint George at Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balat / Fener / gr. Phanarion, Istanbul, Patriarchal Church of St. George (Fener / Phanar), Patriarchate of Constantinople, Plans and drawings, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey

Rite of passage in the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman cemeteries, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Map of the places mentioned in Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History.

Tags: Asia Minor, Eusebius of Caesarea, Greece, History, Maps, Religious practices, Turkey

Map of the Eastern Mediterrranean showing the places mentioned in the Old and New Testament.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bible, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Maps, New Testament, Old Testament, Palestine, Religious practices, Syria, Turkey

Early Christian inscriptions from Syria.

Tags: Early Christian Monuments, History, Inscriptions, Religious practices, Syria

View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices, Views

View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

A cross with half moons set over the churches of Hungary who pay tribute to the Sultan, according to the author. The Ottoman symbols of the star and the half moon upon the steeple of S. Stephen's Church in Vienna.

Tags: Austria, Crosses, Hungary, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna), Vienna

The monastery of Panagia Olympiotissa at Elassona, Thessaly.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Church of Profitis Ilias (Tyrnavos), Churches, Elassona, Greece, Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain (Mihrişah Valide Sultan Çeşmesi), Monasteries, Monastery of Panagia Olympiotissa (Thessaly), Religious practices, Sweet waters of Asia / Göksu Deresi / byz. Potamion, Thessaly, Tyrnavos

The Cathedral church of St. Stephen in Vienna.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Austria, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Religious practices, St Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna), Vienna

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