Humans express their faith in a multitude of ways. These photos capture the incredible diversity within faith practices that happen in our world in the span of just one week.
February 3: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform in front of the Gangarama Temple during the Navam Perahera festival in Colombo on February 3, 2015. Monks, drummers, dancers and some 50 trained elephants, mostly from entral part of the island, thronged into Colombo from various regions of Sri Lanka to participate in the city’s biggest two day annual Buddhist procession starting February 2.
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February 6: Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Kashmiri Muslim devotees look towards a cleric displaying the holy relic outside the Dastgeer Sahib shrine on the Friday following the annual Urs on February 06, 2015 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Thousands of Kashmiri Sufi Muslims gathered on Sunday at the shrine of 11th century Sufi preacher Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, also known as Shah-e-Baghdad (King of Baghdad). The shrine is named Dastegeer Sahib after the reverential title of Jeelani, who although never visited Kashmir is held in great reverence by Kashmiris for his spiritual teachings. The shrine was rebuilt recently after a fire completely gutted it in 2012.
