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  • The Madaba Mosaic Map still serves today as floor of the Greek Orthodox church of St. George. The mosaic contains the earliest extant representation of Byzantine Jerusalem, labeled the "Holy City." The map provides important details, with the cardo, or central colonnaded street and the Holy Sepulchre clearly visible. This map is one key in developing scholarly knowledge about Jerusalem after its destruction in 70 AD. The mosaic panel enclosing the Map was originally some 15.60 by 6 m, of which only a quarter of the total is preserved. Some have suggested that this map of Holy Land may have been useful to pilgrims, to help them peregrinate from one holy place to another.
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  • Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini. The mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is one the grandest architectural endeavours of the Islamic Republic. Built on an enormous scale the Holy Shrine also contains the tombs of Khomeini's wife, second son and several other important political figures.
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  • Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini. The mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is one the grandest architectural endeavours of the Islamic Republic. Built on an enormous scale the Holy Shrine also contains the tombs of Khomeini's wife, second son and several other important political figures.
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  • Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini. The mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is one the grandest architectural endeavours of the Islamic Republic. Built on an enormous scale the Holy Shrine also contains the tombs of Khomeini's wife, second son and several other important political figures.
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  • The Madaba Mosaic Map still serves today as floor of the Greek Orthodox parish church of St. George, built in fact in 1896 A.D. over the remains of a Byzantine church, whose dating is probably to be set at the end of 6th or at the beginning of 7th century A.D. The mosaic panel enclosing the Map was originally some 15.60 by 6 m, of which only a quarter of the total is preserved. Some have suggested that this map of Holy Land may have been useful to pilgrims, to help them peregrinate from one holy place to another.
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  • Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini. The mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is one the grandest architectural endeavours of the Islamic Republic. Built on an enormous scale the Holy Shrine also contains the tombs of Khomeini's wife, second son and several other important political figures.
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • The Gran Madre di Dio, or "Great Mother of God", was built in 1831 to commemorate the return of the Savoy following French occupation in 1814. For some believers of magic places of Turin the statue's eyes look at the undiscovered place where is the Holy Graal in Turin.
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  • The Gran Madre di Dio, or "Great Mother of God", was built in 1831 to commemorate the return of the Savoy following French occupation in 1814. For some believers of magic places of Turin the statue's eyes look at the undiscovered place where is the Holy Graal in Turin.
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  • The Gran Madre di Dio, or "Great Mother of God", was built in 1831 to commemorate the return of the Savoy following French occupation in 1814. For some believers of magic places of Turin the statue's eyes look at the undiscovered place where is the Holy Graal in Turin.
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  • Chalice Well Gardens. The Chalice Well is among the  most loved holy wells in Britain. Many legends are attributed to its waters, among these is that they represent the blood of Christ miraculously springing forth from the ground when Joseph of Arimathea buried or washed the cup used at the Last Supper.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Holy Shrude was exposed after many years in 1978. Members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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  • Lecce, the workshop of Claudio Riso is one of the most renowned papier-machè craftsmen. The Holy Family.
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  • Lecce, the workshop of Claudio Riso is one of the most renowned papier-machè craftsmen. The Holy Family.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Pilgrimage day inside Hazrat-e Masumeh Holy Shrine. Iran’s second-holiest city after Mashhad, Qom (Ghom) is home to the magnificent Hazrat-e Masumeh shrine and the religious power of the clerics who have ruled the country since 1979. Shiite scholars and students come from across the world to study in its madrasehs (schools).
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
    em0764943.jpg
  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Pilgrims for 2010 Holy Shroud Exibition.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations, Patzcuaro. The market sells ?calaveras?, skulls of sugar.  Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise the following day. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro's lake was thought to be an important entrance to the ?Inframundo? - the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo's doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
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  • Bethlehem, nativity church.
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  • Otomì indian migrants, a couple living in a abandoned house of the historical centre. The man works only sometimes. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Alvaro Obregon poor district, with a great number of young people gangs (“chavo-bandas”). More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Mexicos’s most populous Indian community, a mosaic of more than 400.000, lives in a most unexpected place, in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth, Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to weave dreams and make plans difficult to undertand by  those part of their world. The ties to their homes are so strong, that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages...that form, in many ways, a different world. This Indian world of the city is a subterranean universe, often hidden behind the annonymous doorway of some rundown colonial mansion.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
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  • Oaxaca: Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: the “Huehuentones”, performing the souls coming back, dance and plays in the streets and inside the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
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  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise, with candles, food and drinks for the souls. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
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  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, band performing for, "Los Angelitos",  the children souls. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
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  • Michoacàn, lago di Patzcuaro. L’isola di Janitzio, considerata dai Purepechas una delle porte di accesso all’Inframundo, il mondo sotterraneo precolombiano, è uno dei luoghi in cui le celebrazioni del Dia de los Muertos sono più intense.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations, the village's market. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
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  • Mexicos’s most populous Indian community, a mosaic of more than 400.000, lives in a most unexpected place, in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth, Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to weave dreams and make plans difficult to undertand by  those part of their world. The ties to their homes are so strong, that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages...that form, in many ways, a different world. This Indian world of the city is a subterranean universe, often hidden behind the annonymous doorway of some rundown colonial mansion.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: theMazatec Indians coming at cemetery the afternoon before the celebration. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead, the “Huehuentones”, performing the souls coming back, dance and plays in the streets and inside the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
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  • Indian political meeting in Mexico City's Zocalo, in front of National Palace. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Vilea Vilor.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: theMazatec Indians coming at cemetery the afternoon before the celebration.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
    em0216365.jpg
  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Triqui Indians commuity of migrants from Oaxaca. They lives in shanty towns or in abandoned old houses.  in More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
    em0216356.jpg
  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as ?embassies? for their distant villages.
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