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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Lumb Lane, Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Lumb Lane, Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya traitions meet. Villagers decorate the street before the coffin of Christ is carried through the intricately designed biblical images made from coloured sawdust.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. catholicism and maya Indian tradions meet. Members of the cofradia, the church elders outside the church on Palm Sunday.
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  • Pilgrims camping in the shrine at the shrine.
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  • Child is baptised in the holy waters of the shrine.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Inside the church awaiting the crucifiction of Christ on Good Friday.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Good Friday. 70 villagemen carry Christ's coffin through the streets of the village. The roads have been painstakingly decorated with biblical patters using coloured sawdust. Throughout the day and night, the procession will continue at a snails pace through the intricately decorated streets. Villagers await the arrival of the procession through the street.
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  • The effigy of the "dirty eating" saint Maximon crucified during the Holy Week celebrations in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. His exact origin is unknown, but he is thought to be a blend of ancient Maya gods, Pedro de Alvarado and the biblical Judas. In return for taking on the problems of the people, he is offered cigarettes and alcohol to cleanse him from the sins and pain he has to take from visiting pilgrims.
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  • The effigy of the "dirty eating" saint Maximon is visited by pilgrims during the Holy Week celebrations in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. His exact origin is unknown, but he is thought to be a blend of ancient Maya gods, Pedro de Alvarado and the biblical Judas. In return for taking on the problems of the people, he is offered cigarettes and alcohol to cleanse him from the sins and pain he has to take from visiting pilgrims.
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  • The effigy of the "dirty eating" saint Maximon is given a cigarette during the Holy Week celebrations in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. His exact origin is unknown, but he is thought to be a blend of ancient Maya gods, Pedro de Alvarado and the biblical Judas. In return for taking on the problems of the people, he is offered cigarettes and alcohol to cleanse him from the sins and pain he has to take from visiting pilgrims.
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  • Pilgrims congregate at the shrine.
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  • Pilgrims congregate at the shrine.
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  • Villagers wash the clothes of the "dirty eating" saint Maximon  during the Holy Week celebrations in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. His exact origin is unknown, but he is thought to be a blend of ancient Maya gods, Pedro de Alvarado and the biblical Judas. In return for taking on the problems of the people, he is offered cigarettes and alcohol to cleanse him from the sins and pain he has to take from visiting pilgrims.
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  • Holy Week in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya Indian traditions meet. One of the Cofradia, a guardian of the saints stands guard.
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  • Girl silhouetted in archway as pilgrim sits by steps of the shrine.
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Inside the church awaiting the crucifiction of Christ on Good Friday.
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  • Villagers wash the clothes of the "dirty eating" saint Maximon  during the Holy Week celebrations in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. His exact origin is unknown, but he is thought to be a blend of ancient Maya gods, Pedro de Alvarado and the biblical Judas. In return for taking on the problems of the people, he is offered cigarettes and alcohol to cleanse him from the sins and pain he has to take from visiting pilgrims.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. The village gathers at the church on Palm Sunday, where Catholic and traditional Maya rituals will make up the celebrations.
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  • On Good Friday in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala,seventy men carry Christ's coffin at a snail's pace from the church through the village. The procession continues for twenty hours, shuffling through the streets decorated with sawdust, coloured and poured into designs from biblical stories.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. The village gathers at the church on Palm Sunday, where Catholic and traditional Maya rituals will make up the celebrations.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya Indian traditions meet. Villagers gather at the home os St Maximon, the smoking and drinking saint. "A Dirty Eater", he takes the pain and the problems of the faithful and then is purified with tobaccoand alcolhol.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya traitions meet. Villagers gatherat the home of Saint Maximon, the smoking and drinking saint. "A Dirty Eater", he takes the pains and problems of the faithful and is then purified with tobacco and alcohol.
    7519_14.jpg
  • pilgrims in t he church at the shrine.
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  • Pilgrim is dragged on his back to the shrine in the hope of blessings and miracles.
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  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Good Friday. 70 villagemen carry Christ's coffin through the streets of the village. The roads have been painstakingly decorated with biblical patters using coloured sawdust. Throughout the day and night, the procession will continue at a snails pace through the intricately decorated streets. Villagers await the arrival of the procession through the street.
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  • Pilgrim receives holy communion in the shrine.
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  • The holy icon, the Megalokhari, is carried through the streets over the heads of pilgrims,
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. The crucifiction of Christ on Good Friday.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Thevillage gathers at the church on Palm Sunday, where Catholic and traditional Maya rituals will make up the celebrations.
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  • The church in the village of Santiago Atitlan. Built on the site of a Maya temple, it is a mixture of Indian culture and Catholicism. Filled with the smoke of candles and incense, villagers pay their last respects to Christ before his "Crucifiction" on GoodFriday.
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  • Good Friday in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.. Throughout the day and night seventy men carry Christ's coffin at a snail's pace through the streets of the village.
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  • Bishops in all their finery during the celebrations at the shrine.
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  • Street games. New Lodge, Belfast. Northern Ireland 1988
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  • Good Friday in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.. Throughout the day and night seventy men carry Christ's coffin at a snail's pace through the streets of the village.
    7541_34a.jpg
  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya traitions meet. Villagers gatherat the home of Saint Maximon, the smoking and drinking saint. "A Dirty Eater", he takes the pains and problems of the faithful and is then purified with tobacco and alcohol.
    7521_33a.jpg
  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
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  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
    6981_18.jpg
  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
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  • pilgrims in t he church at the shrine.
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  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
    6960_14.jpg
  • Pilgrims congregate at the shrine.
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  • Pilgrims crawl on their hands and knees to the shrine in the hope of miracles and blessings.
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland
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