Religion 🙏🏼

The 2017 <n>Mount Agung</n> eruption through the <n>Gates of Heaven</n> at <n>Lempuyang Temple</n>. Photo by <n>Amro Helmy</n>.

<n>Besakih Temple</n> on Bali's Mount Agung, from <n>John Gaisord</n>'s book <n>Atlas of Man</n> (1978).

A young monk at the <n>Hsinbyume Pagoda</n> in Mingun, Myanmar.

A still from the 2023 film <n>El Conde</n>, directed by <n>Pablo Larraín</n>.

Late afternoon at the <n>Grand Mosque of Djenné</n> in Mali.

A <n>three-headed deity</n> from <n>Angkor</n>, Cambodia, from the book <n>Lost Cities of Asia</n> by <n>Wim Swaan</n>, 1966.

The <n>Dwarkadhish Temple</n> in Dwarka, Gujarat.

A film still from the 2023 documentary <n>Samsara</n> by director <n>Lois Patiño</n>.

The <n>Aukana Buddha</n> statue in Sri Lanka, photographed by <n>Raghubir Singh</n> in 1979.

The <n>Church of Saint George</n> in Lalibela, Ethiopia, carved from a single block of rock in the 12th c.

Sunlight in the <n>Inner sanctuary of Amon-Ra, Temple of Karnak</n> in Luxor, Egypt.

A beam of light inside the <n>Karnak Temple</n> in Luxor, Egypt. Photo by <n>Jordan Hoggard</n>.

The <n>Grand Mosque of Agadez</n> in Niger. Photo by <n>António Mesquita</n>.

Religious pilgrims rest inside <n>Lalibela’s rock-hewn church complex</n> for <n>Gena</n>, Ethiopian Christmas.

An <n>Orthodox Christmas Celebration</n>. Photo by <n>Adane Firde</n>.

The <n>Giza Pyramid Complex</n> in Egypt, photographed by <n>Sébastien Nagy</n>.

<n>Paro Taktsang</n>, also known as Tiger's Nest, a cliffside monastery in the <n>Paro</n> Valley of <n>Bhutan</n>.

Women of the <n>Harb tribe</n> in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, 1971.

A holy figure on the streets of <n>Kathmandu</n>, Nepal.

The <n>Bada Bagh</n> cenotaphs in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

The colour and romance of Rajasthan, Land of the Kings

An <n>Ethiopian Orthodox priest</n> reads in a church in <n>Lalibela</n>, Ethiopia. Photo by <n>Natalia Stone</n>.

<n>Colossal faces of Bayon</n> at <n>Angkor Thom</n>, c. 1200. Photo by <n>Jacques Arthaud</n>.

Monks in Siam, 1953. Photo by <n>Jean-Philippe Charbonnier</n>.

<n>Zen</n>, a 1969 photograph from the <n>Japanesque</n> series by <n>Ikko Narahara</n>.