Examples of Prayer in the following topics:
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- Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private.
- Most major religions involve prayer in one way or another.
- Some Native Americans regard dancing as a form of prayer .
- Jewish prayer may involve swaying back and forth and bowing.
- Muslims practice salah (kneeling and prostration) in their prayers.
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- The Islamic mosque has historically been both a place of prayer and a community meeting space.
- Founded in 670, it contains all of the architectural features that distinguish early mosques: a minaret, a large courtyard surrounded by porticos, and a hypostyle prayer hall.
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- The prayer hall, measuring about 85 by 164 feet, occupies the eastern half of the mosque behind the qibla wall.
- In the prayer hall, each of the three towers in the qibla wall has a niche or mihrab.
- The imam conducts the prayers from the mihrab in the larger central tower.
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- Unkei in the guise of a monk, with prayer beads; note the powerful hands
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- For example, the goddess Sarasvati is always depicted with a minimum of four arms: two of the arms will be playing a vina, representing the tuning of her knowledge; her other two hands often hold prayer beads and a scripture, both of which represent her devotion to her spirituality.
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- In polytheism, deities are conceived of as a counterpart to humans: humans are defined by their station subject to the deities, nourishing them with prayers or sacrifices, and deities are defined by their sovereignty over humans, punishing and rewarding them, but also depending on their worship.
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- One of their early works is "Like a Prayer" (1991), documenting the 1989 ACT UP protests at St.
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- These temples were a sacred space where believers could go with offerings and prayers and to seek oracular guidance from temple priests, as in the ancient Egyptian tradition .
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- Early Mughal mosques had massive enclosed courtyards and domed shallow prayer halls.