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    • Sacred Stones

    • Sacred Stones

    • Religion

    • The Mongolian skyline is peppered with round piles of stones called owoos, which serve as spiritual pilars. When you encounter an owoo, the respectful thing to do is bring a few pebbles from the bottom of the mountian, walk about the owoo three...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sahelian Mosque

    • Sahelian Mosque

    • Architecture; Religion

    • While reading a book, a boy leans against the side of a mosque in Larabanga, North Western Ghana. The town is known for this mud-built whitewashed Sahelian mosque, said to date from 1421. It is reputed to be Ghana's oldest mosque. The picture was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samburu Moran, Easter

    • Samburu Moran, Easter

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Religion

    • This is a photo portrait taken of a L 'Moran warrior north of Archer's Post (north of Isiolo, Kenya) when I visited a friends mother's traditional Samburu manyatta campsite over the Easter Holiday. 1986
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sangam Temple Fire Walking

    • Sangam Temple Fire Walking

    • Ceremonies; Religion; Traditional dress

    • I took this photo during an annual Hindu fire walking ceremony in September, 2008 at Sangam Temple in Navua, Fiji. The ritual is an act of self-purification and is part of a vow in which the devotee promises to walk on fire in order to receive...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • St. John's Cathedral in Comrat, Gagauzia

    • St. John's Cathedral in Comrat, Gagauzia

    • Religion; Architecture

    • This photo is of St. John's Cathedral on Lenin Street in the center of Comrat the capital of Moldova's semi-autonomous region Gagauzia. This photo was taken August 2009. Gagauzia is a predominantly Russian-speaking part of Moldova and its Orthodox...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tabaski Prayer

    • Tabaski Prayer

    • Religion

    • This is a photo of the communal prayer during the celebration of Tabaski in 2009. It was taken outside the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger. Though there are small mosques in the village, there was no single mosque large enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tabaski Prayer Day

    • Tabaski Prayer Day

    • Celebrations; Religion

    • I took this photo during the village-wide prayer for Tabaski in 2006. Tabaski is a Muslim celebration in which a goat is normally sacrificed, and people all come to pray together. I came to pray with my family and it was an incredible experience to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Talibes in Senegal

    • Talibes in Senegal

    • religion; youth

    • I took this photo in August 2010 in Podor, Senegal while helping with a shoe distribution to a dara, a koranic school where students are sent to study the Koran under the instruction of a religious teacher called a marabout. These talibes, koranic...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Monks in Thailand

    • Teaching Monks in Thailand

    • Teachers and students; Religion

    • Wieng Haeng, Chiang Mai Thailand in 2006. Teaching a special English class to the monks at the temple down the road from my house. I had two male Thai teachers there to help me so I didn't have to walk around the room and possibly touch the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Temple

    • Temple

    • Architecture; Religion

    • Ben, a fellow trainee, took this picture of me in front of a temple across the street from my host family's house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Baptism

    • The Baptism

    • Ceremonies; Religion; Traditional dress

    • I participated in many religious festivities in my predominantly Islamic community. On the seventh morning after a child’s birth, the baptism takes place where the infant is blessed and formally named. Here, my friend Kadi holds her newborn. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Easter Bunny in the Andes

    • The Easter Bunny in the Andes

    • Children; Celebrations; Religion

    • This photo was taken in April 2010 in a community in the Andes mountains of Peru. Although they do not celebrate Easter there, I wanted to share something I had enjoyed as a child--dying Easter eggs--with the kids at my local elementary school....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Ovoo Offering

    • The Ovoo Offering

    • Religion

    • I took this photo in early June 2010 in the countryside of Tuv province. The driver stopped briefly when we were en route to our training site in Mongolia. It depicts my good friend and fellow Volunteer (Mongolia 2010-12), Alexandria picking up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Theresa with Host Family at Church

    • Theresa with Host Family at Church

    • Host families; Religion

    • This was taken after Church in the village of Hakupu one Sunday with my host family - Mother Tiva Toeono and twins Simoe and Anton. Ladies over 18 years old had to wear hats to Church and the women weaved incredibly beautiful hats they loved to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Timket Service

    • Timket Service

    • Celebrations; Religion

    • Orthodox priests line up and chant during the Timket (Epiphany Celebration) Service on Jan. 19, 2013 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar is a large pilgrimage site for Epiphany, and the service includes the blessing of holy water at Fasilides Baths, unique...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Two Volunteers with Sunday School Class

    • Two Volunteers with Sunday School Class

    • Religion; Youth

    • Wendy and I (Theresa) usually took the kids in our village - Avatele - each week during the Church service over to the Pastor's house to do some activities with them. Church was a very important part of village life and there were two services...
    • Volunteer Photos

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