Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Jerusalem Lutheran church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 3908 JERUSALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH JERUSALEM -- Historic Church of the Redeemer, largest Lutheran house of worship in Palestine, is viewed through a street arch in the old, walled-in-section of the city. The stone edifice is built on the site of the hospital of the Knights of St. John, a religious order which began at the time of the Crusades. Its congregation comprises the small colony of Germans who reside in the Holy Land. Other Lutheran churches are used by Arab converts. In the background, right, can be seen the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GS-JER-BS-6B-6-L)
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church of the Redeemer (Jerusalem), Knights of Malta., Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Catholic Church--Buildings., Armenian Church--Buildings., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Buildings., Coptic Church--Buildings., YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān--Buildings., Syrian Orthodox Church--Buildings.
Topics:
Crusades., Church buildings--Jerusalem., Historic buildings--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc., Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359729
Title:
Jerusalem Anglican cathedral.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 3906 JERUSALEM ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL JERUSALEM -- St. George’s Cathedral, Anglican church edifice erected in the modern section outside the walls of this ancient city, is visited regularly by British soldiers stationed in the Holy Land. Shown here is the interior of the cathedral with servicemen prominent among the worshippers. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GS-JER-BS-6B-6-A-E)
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem (Jerusalem), Great Britain. Army., Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East--Buildings.
Topics:
Anglican church buildings--Jerusalem., Church architecture--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc., Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359728
Title:
Wailing Wall and the Tower of Antonia.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 3865 The Wailing Wall and the Tower of Antonia, of the Temple area. In the background the building of the Supreme Moslem Council.
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Majlis al-Sharʻī al-Islāmī al-Aʻlá (Palestine)
Topics:
Western Wall (Jerusalem), Historic sites--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Antonia Fortress (Jerusalem), Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359727
Title:
Jerusalem in snow.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 3855 Jerusalem in snow. In background the Mosque of Omar.
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)
Topics:
Mosques--Jerusalem., Islamic architecture--Jerusalem., Houses of prayer--Jerusalem., Snow--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359725
Title:
Talmud Thora High School, Jerusalem.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 3851 Talmud Thora High School, Jerusalem.
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Talmud Torah High School (Jerusalem)
Topics:
Jewish religious schools--Jerusalem., Jewish religious education--Jerusalem., High schools--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359724
Title:
Institute for Judaistic Studies.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 3850 The Institute for Judaistic Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Creator:
Photostudio Schwarz (Jerusalem) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem)
Topics:
Jewish religious schools--Jerusalem., Jewish religious education--Jerusalem., Universities and colleges--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359723
Title:
People mourning over Jerusalem.
Creator:
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883. (artist)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Mourning customs in art., Christian art and symbolism.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359528
Title:
Palestine types.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PALESTINE TYPES #3470 This grey-bearded cleric is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, which once exerted much power in the Holy City of Jerusalem. The priests usually conduct services in Arabic, but many of the higher clergy, who are Greek by birth, read Mass in Greek. (One of a Series) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GS-JE-S-5B-6-R)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Clergy.
Topics:
Clergy--Jerusalem., Ethnology--Palestine., Christians--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359436
Title:
Bells of Bethlehem.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #1059 BELLS OF BETHLEHEM In the silent night, the bells of Bethlehem ring out over the town of David and the fields beyond, where 2,000 years ago shepherds keeping their watch were visited by an angel, who announced the joyful tidings: “This day is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” (TFD-NY-TFD-11-29-5)
Creator:
Doyle. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Bell towers--Jerusalem., Bell music--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358814
Title:
Jerusalem.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: JERUSALEM - THE HOLY CITY The Dome of the Rock #1232 The Dome of the Rock, or Kubbet es-Shakhra, is said by Arab historians to have been built in the 7th century by ‘Abd el-Melik as a Moslem shrine. A splendid example of Moslem architecture, the shrine rises above the Holy Rock, which, according to the Talmud, covers the mouth of an abyss in which the waters of the Flood are heard roaring. Abraham and Melchizedek are said to have sacrificed here. The Dome was regarded as the center of the world, and the spot upon which the Ark of the Covenant stood. Moslems maintains that beneath the Rock is the Bir el-Arwah, or well of the souls, where the souls of the dead assemble to pray twice weekly. Mohammed himself prayed at the shrine and declared that one prayer there was worth a thousand elsewhere. Legend says Mohammed was translated to heaven from this spot on the back of el-Barak, his miraculous steed. Hairs from the Prophet’s head are preserved at the shrine, and in it are also several Korans of great age. This unusual picture was made from the window of the Grand Mufti’s room in the office of the Moslem Supreme Council of Palestine. (No. 6 of a Series)
Creator:
Associated Press. (publisher)
Subject names:
Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem), Masjid al-Aqṣá (Jerusalem), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Mosques--Jerusalem., Domes--Jerusalem., Islamic architecture--Jerusalem., Architecture, Umayyad--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356912
Title:
Jerusalem.
Creator:
Associated Press. (publisher)
Subject names:
Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem), Masjid al-Aqṣá (Jerusalem), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Mosques--Jerusalem., Domes--Jerusalem., Islamic architecture--Jerusalem., Architecture, Umayyad--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356911
Title:
Jerusalem.
Description:
Text transcribed from notation on envelope: Jerusalem - the holy city.
Creator:
Associated Press. (publisher)
Subject names:
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Jerusalem., Domes--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356910
Title:
Martin Buber.
Creator:
Keystone (Rome, Italy) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Buber, Martin, 1878-1965.
Topics:
Philosophers--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355962
Title:
Pope with Athenagoras.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Athēnagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1886-1972., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Relations--Catholic Church., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Popes.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353877
Title:
New York churchman tours Holy Land.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30611 NEW YORK CHURCHMAN TOURS HOLY LAND JERUSALEM -- Greetings from New York Protestants were carried to the Middle East and Western Europe by Dr. Dan M. Potter, director of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, and Mrs. Potter. Their tour included meetings with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, at Istanbul, and an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. In the Holy Land, Dr. And Mrs. Potter delivered specially inscribed greetings to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benedictos of Jerusalem, President S.Z. Shazar of Israel (top center) and King Hussein of Jordan (bottom center). Their tour of shrines included a visit to the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition (right) on Mt. Zion, near the traditional site of the room of the Last Supper. Dr. Potter also planted a sapling (left) at a special center in Sanhedria, site of the mass tombs of the Sanhedrin, the Rabbinical Courts of ancient Israel. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-2D-64-NBM)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Potter, Dan M., Shazar, Zalman, 1889-1974., Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Topics:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353807
Title:
Jewish wedding, Jerusalem.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 30688 JEWISH WEDDING -- JERUSALEM Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-NY-3A-64)
Creator:
United Synagogue of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Jewish marriage customs and rites--Jerusalem., Weddings--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353699
Title:
Pope with Athenagoras.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Athēnagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1886-1972., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Relations--Catholic Church., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Popes.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353694
Title:
New York churchman tours Holy Land.
Description:
Alternate captions describing individual photos.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Potter, Dan M., Hagia Maria Sion Abbey (Jerusalem), Shazar, Zalman, 1889-1974., Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Topics:
Rabbinical courts., Tombs--Jerusalem--Sanhedriyah., Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Sanhedriyah (Jerusalem), Zion, Mount (Jerusalem)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353544
Title:
Israel forwards pictures of Council director.
Description:
Article from Protestant Church Life.
Creator:
Associated Press. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Potter, Dan M., Hagia Maria Sion Abbey (Jerusalem), Shazar, Zalman, 1889-1974., Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Topics:
Rabbinical courts., Tombs--Jerusalem--Sanhedriyah., Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353494
Title:
Pope and patriarch.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30438 POPE AND PATRIARCH JERUSALEM, Jordan -- Christian history is made in the Holy Land as Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Pope Paul VI meet in Jerusalem. Their conversation at the residence of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Delegate to Jordan was the first between a Pope and a supreme leader of Orthodoxy in 525 years. A second meeting saw Pope Paul call upon the Patriarch at the Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem; there, accompanied by Orthodox and Roman Catholic prelates, they prayed for Christian unity. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-1B-64-W)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Orthodox Eastern Church--Relations--Catholic Church., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodox Eastern Church., Athēnagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1886-1972.
Topics:
Papal visits--Palestine., Popes., Patriarchs and patriarchate--Jerusalem., Ecumenical movement--Jerusalem.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352993

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