Devotees Collection

Lourdes, France - The Virgin Crowned statue
Lourdes, France - The Statue of the Crowned Virgin, often known as the " Crowned Statue" (La Vierge Couronnee), standing across Rosary Square from the Rosary Basilica, facing the entrance

Kandy - Sri Lanka - Worshipping the tooth relic
Kandy is very popular due to the annual Buddhist pageant known as the Esala Perahera, in which one of the inner caskets used for covering the tooth relic of Buddha is taken in a grand procession

Body suspension festival of Mariatal or Chidi Mari, India
Festival of Mariatal, Churrack-Pooja, Carak Puja or Chidi Mari, near Pondicheri, India. Hindu devotees are suspended by hooks in the skin from long poles

Taking the veil at the church of the convent of the most Holy Trinity at Bermondsey, which opened for the reception of the sisterhood of the Order of our blessed Lady of Mercy in November 1839

Tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Eyup Sultan Mosque
Turbe or tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. The tomb is open day and night and lit with two large torches and a flagpole wrapped in green cloth

Two Sufi Dervish devotees at prayer
Two Dervish penitents performing prayer rituals in a Dervish lodge. One with his hair tied to the ceiling with a cord, and another with band around hands and knees holding prayer beads

Festival for the dedication of a HIndu temple
Festival (Tirunal) for the dedication of a HIndu temple. Devotees pulling a wheeled shrine decorated with flags into a temple compound to music

Xaca, Japanese Deity
Japanese deity Xaca Date: 1737

Xantai, Japanese Deity
Japanese deity, Xantai Date: 1737

Idol of Canon
Canon idol (also referred to as kannon, kwannon) Date: 1737

Japanese Preacher
A Japanese Preacher haranguing (preaching to) the people who are assembled to worship their Tuteler-Idol. Date: 1760

Interior of the Temple of Quannon (Kannon) Kannon (Kwannon, Quannon) personifies compassion and is one of the most widely worshipped deities in Asia and Japan throughout both ancient

Amida deity, Japan
Amida (also known as Amitabha or Amitayus), is a celestial buddha according to the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Amida is the principal buddha in Pure Land Buddhism, (Mahayana Buddhism)

Giant Buddha Statue - Daibutsu, Japan in a temple. Date: 1737

Deauville Devotees Potted on the Plage by Mundo
Caricatures of some familiar visitors to the fashionable French resort of Deauville. From left to right are Baron and Baroness Schroeders, behind whom is seen the Comte de Mardre. M. R

Ecstatic Moslems
MOSLEM FANATICS At the Mohurrum Festival, Iran, devotees mutilate themselves while in a state of ecstasy Date: 1913

French Advertising Postcard - Mineral Water Gas Soda Stream
French Advertising Postcard - Bowing down in reverence at the shrine of a Mineral Water Gas Soda Stream / Siphon. Date: circa 1930s

Hindu Juggernaut Car - Ceremony at Colombo
Hindu Juggernaut Procession - Ceremony at Colombo, Sri Lanka. The word juggernaut is derived from the Sanskrit Jagannatha (meaning Lord of the universe)

Gellerts Monument
Devotees of his writings admire the monument to German writer Christian Furchtegott Gellert. Date: 1769+

Sri Lanka - Colombo - Hindu Juggernaut Procession
Hindu Juggernaut Procession - Ceremony at Colombo, Sri Lanka. The word juggernaut is derived from the Sanskrit Jagannatha (meaning Lord of the universe)

Lourdes, France - Praying before the Virgin Crowned statue (La Vierge Couronnee). The Statue, standing across Rosary Square from the Rosary Basilica, facing the entrance is cast in bronze

India - Indian Guru and young devotees
Vuja - an Indian Guru pictured with his young devotees Date: circa 1910s

A Swami Mystic and his Followers
A Swami Mystic (religious figurehead) from Madras and his Followers. Swami is primarily a Hindu honorific title, which emphasises a learning and mastery of Yoga, devotion to the gods

Itinerant Devotees
Wandering devotees, one with a tame tiger

Burning Incense China
Religious devotees burn incense sticks in a temple which actors perform as Gods in the rear

Doseh Ceremony
At the Doseh, or treading ceremony, held on Mohammeds birthday, sufi devotees prostrate themselves while their sheikh rides over them on his horse

Moslem Devotee
An Abdul, Santon or Kalender, member of a sect of Moslem devotees

Monkey Pagoda / 1780
Inside the celebrated Pagod of the Monkeys in Japan, several devotees pray while others make offerings

Dionysian Revellers
Devotees of Dionysos (Bacchus)celebrate him with song and dance

Dancer and Devotees
A dancer entertains three devotees of her art, in her dressing room

Chinese Relig. Beggars
Beggars, jugglers and suchlike charlatans - some mounted on tame tigers as proof of their qualities - solicit funding from passers-by in the name of religion

Amrou Mosque Cairo
One of the smaller Cairo mosques but with its own particular dedication and its own devotees

Devotees of Xaca in Japan have their faith tested
Devotees of Xaca demonstrate their faith by confessing their sins while suspended over an abyss. If they lie, they tip the scales and fall

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