religious dress: Quick Facts

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Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church, wearing ornate religious vestments and a jeweled mitre, holds a staff and censer during an outdoor service.

Jewish religious dress

Two Jewish men wearing yarmulkes and tallitot, one blowing a shofar and the other holding a prayer book, praying during Rosh Hashana in Uman, Ukraine.

Engraving of Saint Teresa of Avila in a Carmelite habit, gazing upward and holding a crucifix and a scroll.

Russian Orthodox priests

Bishop Barbara Harris

A young Muslim girl wearing a white hijab reads the Qur'an, following the Arabic text with her finger.

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