A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: K is for Kneelers and Kneeling

 Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places we visited there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums.

Finding themes for this K post was as difficult for me as on the rare occasions I attend a service and find myself Kneeling on hard wooden Kneelers.  I have taken the liberty of adding images of people who don't kneel when paying reverence to their Gods. 

Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

The Western Wall - Jerusalem, Israel

Bucharest, Romania

Chaing Mai, Thailand

St. George's Memorial Church - Ypres, Belgium

Closeup of one kneeler
St. George's Memorial Church - Ypres, Belgium

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Thailand

Mumbai,Iindia

Phuket, Thailand

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Agra, India

Perhaps a few of these people were praying - Taj Mahal, Agra, India 

Schoolchildren - Thailand

Chartres Cathedral - Chartres, France

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: H is for Holy Men and Women

 Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places we visited there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums.

Each religion has adherents, Holy Men and Women,  who join in worship or pray in Gods' Houses. 

Pilgrims prostrate outside temple - Lhasa, Tibet

Monks praying in temple grounds - Lhasa, Tibet

Nun at The House of  the Virgin Mary - Mount Koressos, Turkey

A Grandchild's Christening at Christ Church Cathedral - Newcastle, NSW, Australia

St Marys Anglican Church - Waverley, NSW, Australia

Rev Terence Dicks 
at St Marys Anglican Church - Waverley, NSW, Australia

This man showed us how Muslims pray at the Mosque -  Salalah, Oman

At The Solovetsky Monastery - Solovetsky Island, Russia

Outdoor Mass at the Basilica of Bom Jesus - Goa, India

Choirboys - Monserrat, Spain

Outdoor Mass, Church of the Beatitudes - Sea of Galilee, Israel

Orthodox Church - Bucharest, Romania

Sister of Charity, Sister Mary Eugene, worshipped at
St Vincents College Chapel,  Potts Point, Australia

Monk - Wat Phra Doi That, Suthep - Thailand

A Sunday Morning - Somewhere in Austria

A friendly smile - Mykonos, Greece

Visiting the Basilica of the Holy Trinity - Fatima, Portugal

Rehearsal at the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba - Cordoba, Spain

Procession - Prague, Czechia

Young man at Mosque demonstrating pre prayer washing
Salalah, Oman 

Friars, Church of the Beatitudes - Sea of Galilee, Israel

Hindu Temple - Mumbai, India

Guard Duty Church of the Nativity - Bethlehem, Israel

Czestochowa, Poland

Mosque - Muscat, Oman