Two little girls, well wrapped up against the cold, hear their first sermon in the village church Date: 1886
HOGARTH NOON HUGUENOTS2. Noon Huguenot refugees attend chapel, opposite an eating house - St Giles in the Field is visible in the background. Date: 1738
The village schoolmaster conducts a public catechism in Hitterdal church Date: 1845
CRUIKSHANK / THE GIN SHOPThe drunkard having signed the pledge goes with his family to church. plate 10 of 12 Date: 1868
Christmas morning - Churchgoers 1859Victorian people wearing their Sunday-best, about to enter church for prays. Date: 1859
BEST SUNDAY CAPEA Belgian woman of Campine goes to church in her Sunday cape Date: 1950
SINGING IN CHURCHA mother and her children sing in church on New Years Morning (decorations still up, long gloves against the cold..) Date: 1890s
Churchgoing and charityA family returns from church to their Christmas dinner, and Papa is charitably disposed towards a barefoot girl. Date: 1855
Harvest Festival church serviceHarvest Festival service, Church of England Date: circa 1918
Immanuel Church, Stockholm, SwedenImmanuel Church (Immanuelskyrkan), Tulegatan, Stockholm, Sweden, with churchgoers leaving the building. Date: circa 1910
England / AylesburySt. Marys Church, photographed from Church Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1930s
Racial / Malta / VallettaWomen in church in Valletta Date: 1909
Plantation WorshipA black preacher delivers his sermon to the congregation on a South Carolina plantation which consists of a white plantation owner and his family and their black workers Date: 1863
Churchgoing at XmasThe village church decorated for Christmas Date: 1869 century
MASSMass in a catholic church Date: circa 1850
Christmas SermonThe Christmas sermon in an English country church Date: 17th century
The Vicars Temptation by William Heath RobinsonAs his parishioners come out of church into a snow-covered churchyard, the vicar bends down to make a snowball, The question is, will he throw it, and if so, at whom? 1947
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 11This is the text which the good pastor chose, And the light on the soul of the drunkard arose, As he sat in the church, to which one Sabbath-day, Along with his wife he had taken his way