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Moscow. Novodevichy Convent
Camera: Kiev-4a + Lens: Jupiter-8M
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Film: Konica Centuria 100 (expired 01/2007)
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Photo taken: 26/04/2017
well not much for prayers so here we go .. i let her lead in it this time.. she starts "I pray for cookies, chocolate cakes, and candy drops let it rain gummi bears and milk duds that's it ...num num" hmm I believe it supposes to be amen but leave it to a kid and you get a new one xD
HDR 5 ex -2,-1,0,+1,+2 ..tone mapped with Photomatix and PP with Topaz Adjust and further work in CS3
Friday prayers at the 17th-century Mahabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. Seeing this from an adjacent rooftop in May 2004 was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. This is what I wrote about the experience at the time:
Though its capacity was significantly smaller than the other great Mughal mosques, the Mahabat Khan Mosque was the largest in the old city and was Peshawar’s primary Friday Mosque. But it wasn’t big enough to house the thousands of men from Peshawar and the surrounding villages who wanted to prostrate themselves before Allah. No one could tell me the capacity of the mosque (one said fifteen thousand, which I knew to be a greatly overstated figure), so in the end I went into the courtyard and counted the tiled rectangles on the floor that were designed to separate one worshipper from the next. There were only fourteen hundred and one (the vast courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, by comparison, was reputed to be able to hold one hundred thousand people).
As Friday prayers began at one o’clock, I was overlooking the mosque from a rooftop across the street. The mosque was packed with fourteen hundred and one devoted Muslim men in shalwar qamiz and mosque caps, genuflecting, sitting and standing in unison, perfectly spaced in their individual rectangles, displaying a harmony in prayer that so contrasted the seemingly random acts of worship that took place at the many Hindu temples I had visited in India.
But the devout were not confined to the mosque itself. Those who could not fit in the courtyard climbed onto the rooftops of adjacent buildings, put down their prayer mats and performed the ritual there. There were little boys and old men alike, and as the courtyard worshippers went up and down, so did these rooftop dwellers. The practice had obviously been happening for years, because there were purpose-built stairs on the outside of the mosque leading to these rooftops, and at the bottom of these staircases were taps to allow the Muslims who could not reach the ablutions tank in the mosque’s courtyard to clean themselves before praying.
This wall of prayer wheels were at our hotel in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan., We were at the very beautiful Druk Hotel and our rooms were really really pretty. As we progressed across the country the accommodation went from four star to maybe two star:-)
Prayer time at Ahmedabad's Jama Masjid Mosque in the Old City.
This one is dedicated to my father who grew up in Ahmedabad.
It is a prayer wheel in the street of Ladakhi village. A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel installed on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather or coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit on the outside of the wheel. Also sometimes depicted are Dakinis, Protectors and very often the 8 auspicious symbols Ashtamangala. At the core of the cylinder is a "Life Tree" often made of wood or metal with certain mantras written on or wrapped around it. Many thousands (or in the case of larger prayer wheels, millions) of mantras are then wrapped around this life tree. The Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is most commonly used, but other mantras may be used as well. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.
The Bishwa Ijtema (or Bishsho Istema, Bengali: বিশ্ব এসতেমা, the World or Global Congregation or Meeting) is an annual Tablighi Jamaat Islamic movement congregation held at Tongi, Bangladesh at bank of the Turag river. It is the 2nd largest Muslim congregation in the world after the holy Hajj.
Inside the Prayer wheels thousands of shlokas and Hymns are inscribed. Rotating these wheels is equivalent to reciting all of them. Can it get easier than this ?
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Stone prayer bowls in an old Mexican church, in Villa Carbon, Estado de Mexico.
Prayer in Islam, is worship of Allah the Almighty, Praising and Thanking Him, acknowledging His Sovereignty and committing oneself to obey and remember Him at all times. It is the central part of a way of life, which is based on submission to the Owner of all.
أسعد الله صباحكم / مسائكم بكل خير
حياكم الله يالغالين وكل عام وأنتم بخير وتقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال والطاعات
أقدم لكم صور بسيطة لتصوير مصلى العيد وبالتحديد مصلى مدينة بريدة الجنوبي ،،
أخوكم عبدالله الغفيص
An Acehnese woman weeps during a prayer for tsunami victims at the Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, indonesia, Feb. 2005.
You are looking at Buddhist prayer wheels. I bought two for my little girls while traveling in Nepal. Many Buddhist believe that when you spin a prayer wheel 500 prayers go out to help them on their path to enlightenment. I side the prayer wheel is a rolled scroll that has prayers written on them. Have a nice weekend my friends.
阪神淡路大震災 1.17のつどい
日本 兵庫県神戸市中央区 東遊園地
Higashiyuenchi Park, Kobe, Japan
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
January 17, 1995
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_earthquake
.... encircle a pond in front of a Buddhist Temple in Sichuan Province - China, creating an effective reflection.