Title:

[A pilgrimage to Vilnius] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1937]

Description:

The photo shows Ostrobramska Street that leads up to the Ostra Brama (Gate of Dawn) in Vilnius packed full of people. In the foreground among the faithful a priest is visible in a white surplice. Around and behind him a few hundred people of various ages are standing: from elderly woman in headscarfs to scouts in their uniforms. The crowd stretches all the way to Ostra Brama, above which the windows of a chapel can be seen ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows a pilgrimage to Vilnius by the parish of Boguty-Pianki in 1937. The organiser of this and many other pilgrimages was Józef (...) (...-1982 Sokolec), a prisoner of the concentration camp Dachau. ; 1937, Vilnius ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

Gate of Dawn (Vilnius, Lithuania) ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; spiritual culture ; pilgrimage ; pilgrim ; religiosity ; spirituality ; religious rites ; priest ; Vilnius (Lithuania)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 246-3

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed