Sect Collection

PASQUALLY
MARTINEZ PASQUALLY French founder of Martinist esoteric sect

Three Sikh men, India. Date: 1843

Kobe, Japan - A komuso (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Date: 1928

Various sects of Hindu priests or Brahmin with their religious paraphernalia at a river bank. Identified as priests of Sceroteri, Canoge, Drauers, Brijbashi and Uriah

Tartar Woman making a Tsi, sacrificing the spirit of the door to prevent misfortune entering. Buddhist or Fo sect, Lao-Kiun

A Thephilanthropist in robes
A Thephilanthropist, religious sect founded by the visionary Catherine Theot, Directory era, 1795-1799. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la

Masonic Temple, Tacoma, Washington State, USA
Masonic Temple (costing $750, 000), Tacoma, Washington State, USA. The building included a large Theatre and Fellowship Hall. Date: 1928

Masonic Temple, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. circa 1908

Reception Room, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, PA, USA
Reception Room, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1908

Auditorium, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Auditorium, viewed from the stage, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1908

Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance at the Albert Hall
A public baptismal ceremony at the Albert Hall on Good Friday, 1928, where nine hundred men and women of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance were immersed in a tank of warm water

NEW ZEALAND HAUHAU
Members of the fanatical PAI MARIRE, or HAU-HAU sect participate in a frenzied dance Date: 1864

Ascetics monks burn to death in temple
Six ascetics of a Hindu sect are meditating in temple near Shahabad when a lamp falls & sets their mat alight; forbidden to move, they let themselves be roasted... Date: 1939

Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) with the Buddhist sect Tao-See
Emperor Huizong (1082-1135), reign (1100-1126). Song dynasty. The emperor with the Buddhist sect Tao-See. Miniature from a History of the Emperors of China. Colour on silk. Chinese School

Religious sects, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Religious sects (probably Amish) on a street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1920

A Maratha Priest, India. The Maratha are an Indian warrior caste, found predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. Date: circa 1902

Brahmins walking on hot coals near Madras, India
Near Madras, India, forty Brahmins of the Soivrasta sect demonstrate their piety by walking on hot coals. Date: 1908

Ninna-jis Pagoda in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Ninna-ji has been registered as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic monuments of ancient Kyoto

Chion-in, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Chion-in in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan - the headquarters of the Jodo-shu (Pure Land Sect) founded by Honen (11331212). A vast Buddhist Temple complex. Date: circa 1906

Entrance gate - San en-zan Zojo-ji Buddhist temple, Tokyo
Entrance gate of the San en-zan Zojo-ji - a Buddhist temple in the Shiba neighborhood of Minato, Tokyo, Japan (The Great Main Temple of the Chinzei branch of Jodo-shu Buddhism). Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Kobe - Sumadera temple
Suma-dera, also called Joya-san Fukusho-ji, is a Shingon-shu temple erected in the year 886. Shingon-shu is a Buddhist sect founded by Kobo Daishi (Kukai). Date: circa 1908

DIGONNET - Leader of a religious sect at Saint-Jean- Bonnefond, near Saint-Etienne, catholiques mais non romains who thought priests were the Beast of the Apocalypse. Date: 1780 - 1857

JOHN GLAS founder of a sect of independent Presbyterians who became known as the Glassites Date: 1695 - 1773

Ludwig Hetzer
LUDWIG HETZER German follower of the Socinian religious sect Date: ? - 1540

Hannah Trapnel
Hannah (or Anna) Trapnel Prophetess, member of the Fifth Monarchy sect Date: FLOURISHED 1643 - 1657

Joanna Southcott - prophetess
Joanna Southcott (1750 - 1814) religious prophetess and founder of sect Date: 1822

Amish doctor and boy, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Amish doctor and boy walking along North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1926

German colony near Haifa, Galilee, Northern Israel
German religious and agricultural colony named after Bethlehem, near Haifa, Galilee, Northern Israel. It was established in 1906 by Templers, members of the Temple Society, a German Protestant sect

Japan - Cemetary of Kurodani Temple
Lantern slide of cemetary of Kurodani Temple, Kiyoto. Kurodani is a major temple of the J?do Sect of Buddhism.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 39 Date: circa 1890s

Selina Ctess Huntingdon
SELINA COUNTESS HUNTINGDON (nee Shirley), wife of Theophilus, seventh earl : leader of calvinist methodist sect known as the Countess of Huntingdons Persuasion. Date: 1707 - 1791

Chionin Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto, Japan - The Sanmon Gate of the Chionin the head temple of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, which has millions of followers and is one the the most popular Buddhist sects in Japan

Egytian Coptic Woman. Copts in Egypt constitute the largest Christian community in the Middle East, as well as the largest religious minority in the region. Date: circa 1907

Apron of a Masonic Master. Textiles. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

The Chief Lama of Tashi Lumpo
Thubten Choekyi Nyima (1883-1937), The 9th Panchen Lama - The Chief Lama of Tashi Lhunpo. The Panchen Lama is the highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa)

London Scientology H. Q
The Scientology and Dianetics shop of Tottenham Court Road, the London headquarters of the religious sect founded by L. Ron Hubbard in Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A. in 1953. Date: 1980s

The Pluralist, aided by his patron
A satirical comment on the rise of religious pluralism in the mid 19th century

L Muggleton / Wood / Kennerl
LODOWICKE MUGGLETON English Puritan, founder of the Muggletonian Sect

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

Islam - Santon
Santon, Calender or Abdal, member of an Islamic devotional sect

Radna Krishna Sect
Two members of the Radna Krishna Sect, near the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

Waldenses Flight - 1
Persecuted by Louis XIV and his Italian allies, the heretical sect of the Waldenses flee to Switzerland and Germany. They are attacked in the Balsille

New Zealand Maori Dance
The HAU-HAU, a religious /patriotic dance of the Pai Marire fanatics, which expresses in dance movement a challenge to the authorities, somewhat like a war dance

SOUTHCOTT
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Prophetess and founder of a sect. Vignette portrait wearing a mob cap

Whitefields Tabernacle
The building that replaced an earlier tabernacle erected by Whitefields Calvinistic Methodits in Moorfields. Whitefields first pulpit was a grocers sugar hogshead!

ANN LEE Religious enthusiast who became member and ultimately leader of Shaker sect (as Mother Ann ) with which she emigrated to America

Joanna Southcott
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT prophetess and founder of sect

Jumping Cult
Welsh Jumpers

Shakers of Kentucky, USA, having a disagreement
The normally peaceable Shakers of Kentucky, USA, suffer a difference of opinion

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