Pray Collection (page 5)

Paris, France - Chapelle des Invalides. Date: 1829

A Serbian soldier invoking his saints before going to war
A Serbian (Servian) soldier confesses his sins, prays to his saints and leaves a candle burning before the sacred ikon before going to battle during the first week of the Great War. Date: 1914

Our Father which art in heaven by W. Holyoake, 1873
A charity child at prayer, described as wearing in the costume of the Bloomsbury Charity(possibly a reference to the clothing worn at the Foundling Hospital.) Date: 1873

Indian officers praying for recovery of Edward VII, 1902
Indian officers, in London to take part in the Coronation procession of King Edward VII, spontaneously go to pray in the field opposite Fulham Palace

Scene from the opera, Faust, by Charles Gounod
Marguerite is prevented from praying, first by Mephistopheles and then by a choir of devils. She manages to finish her prayer but faints when she is cursed again by Mephistopheles. Date: c.1910

Ora pro nobis, French soldier invoking the Madonna 1916
French soldier taking a minute to pray in a church. 1916

India - Two Muslims at prayer - rooftop Date: circa 1910s

Muslims in Egypt at Prayer Date: circa 1909

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

Boy prays not to get stomach ache
Boy kneels by his bedside and prays not to get stomach ache from the three appealing green apples he is about to consume before hitting the sack. Date: circa 1908

Glamorous French beauty in pious pose, her hands closed together as a silent prayer is uttered... Date: circa 1910s

Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon

Haji Bektash Veli Tomb in Nevsehir Turkey
" Guvenc Abdal Turbesi (Tomb of Guvenc Abdal), (Haci Bektash) at Hac?bektas, formerly Karahuyuk, a town and district of Nevsehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey

Blitz in London -- religious service with AFS, WW2
A priest conducts a prayer service at a London Fire Brigade sub-station attended by the men and women of the AFS serving there and for their colleagues working further afield

Moslems at prayer, Algiers, Algeria
Moslems at prayer (the Great Prayer, Second Phase) in the open air in Algiers, Algeria. Date: early 20th century

The Old Curiosity Shop, Quilp and the ladies
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

Two Moslems at prayer, Egypt
Two Moslems at prayer in the open air in Egypt. They have removed their shoes, and are standing or kneeling on an animal skin. Date: early 20th century

India - The Prayer
Two Indian Muslim men at prayer Date: circa 1907

Illustration with music, Grace Before Meals, showing three little girls saying a prayer. first published 1881

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

Prayers inside Aya Sofya, Istanbul
Prayers inside the Aya Sofya Mosque, Istanbul - nowadays this incredible building is no longer a Christian Church (original usage) or a Mosque (later usage), but houses a museum. Date: circa 1905

Interior of a mosque - Turkey Date: circa 1900

Knight at Church
MEDIEVAL CHURCHGOERS A French lord and his lady, with their retainers, pray before sallying forth to do battle Date: circa 12th century

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 8 of 8
and vowed he d steal no more

Sarajevo - Three Young Turks praying

Praying at the Mosque, Constantinople
Overflow of the Friday Prayers at a Mosque in Constantinople, Turkey

Balkans - Mostar - Turkish man at ritual prayer

Imam at prayer inside the Ayasofya
Imam at prayer inside the famed Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) in Constantinople. Architects of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul were Anthemius of Tralles and Isadorus of Miletus

Belgian soldiers sleep in a church while women and civilians pray for their countrs liberation

Praying at a Menhir
Though priests deplore such superstitions, many peasants retain allegiance to old gods - women pray before the druidic stones at Montchauvet in the bocage of Normandie

Lady Queen Anne
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sits in the sun, as fair as a lily, as white as a swan; I send you three letters, so pray you read one

Moslems at Prayer
A group of Moslem men turn towards Mecca and pray, in various attitudes

Pray remember us poor Children

Boer War Communion
Holy Communion on the veldt British soldiers pray that God is on their side

Conquistadores Pray
The Conquistadores, returning to Tenochtitlan, confess their sins before a wayside cross which they had erected themselves on their first march to Mexico

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

Delaware Lands / 1610
Lord De La Warre (Delaware) lands in Virginia

Child / Mother / Praying
A mother teaches her child to pray

Here come three dukes, words and music
Here come three Dukes a-riding, with a rancy tancy tee. And pray what is your will, Sirs? With a rancy tancy tee

Irvingites; Cutty Stool
IRVINGITES A sinner has to stand on the cutty stool while the congregation of followers of Edward Irving pray for his reformation

Crusader / See Jerusalem
The Crusaders have their first sight of Jerusalem. Overwhelmed, they kneel down and pray

Jeanne D arc (Ingres)
JEANNE D ARC depicted looking very heroic, in armour, while priests pray all around her Date: 1412 - 1431

Napoleon at Cairo
Napoleon, at Cairo during his Egyptian campaign, goes out riding all by himself, and stops on a hill to look at the city, while on a distant rooftop Egyptians pray

Prayer in the Desert
PRAYER IN THE DESERT Two men pray towards Mecca, while their companions (their womenfolk ?) wait patiently on their camels

Notre Dame De Liessee
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all

Castle Rising Bedeswomen
Two bedeswomen (or beadswomen) of Castle Rising, Norfolk : in return for food and lodging, they are required to pray for the souls of their benefactors

Jesus Saves
Our Holy Mother the Church sometimes provides timely salvation... but you may also need to pray for a very long ladder

Hereward Learns to Pray
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Torfrida taught the Saxon hero Hereward to kneel down and pray, dogs and baby beside them. Date: circa 1070

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