Sheikh Khalifa al Nahyan Mosque, Men's prayer room, Shymkent, South Region, Kazakhstan, Central Asia

Women's room dedicated to Kim Hoa mothers' goddess, Emperor Jade Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Mescit (prayer room) on six columns, 16th century Ottoman caravanserai built as a travellers' inn, Buyuk Han, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, Europe

Prayer room in Henjoko-in Temple, Pilgrim's and tourist lodging (Shukubo), Mount Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, East Asia

Buddhist monks worship with round gongs inside a prayer room at a monastery, Bhutan, Asia

Buddhist monks worship with round gongs inside a prayer room at a monastery, Bhutan, Asia

Indonesia a kindergarten in banda aceh which lost many of children to tsunami, been rebuilt. schools director halimah anwar bustam (seen here in foreground) describes horrors suffered: area kids came from completely flattened by waves. On that fateful sunday children were in their homes, or many were already on beach having. So many died that morning. It devastating. Only we getting things back together, very grateful to helping with reconstruction of damaged building. staff give up a portion of their (already) salaries to sponsor poor children from outlying villages to come to school. structure includes offices staff, a library, prayer room wheelchair accessible classroom.__ Photograph taken in banda aceh, -december 2006, 2 years after tsunami of december 26th 2004 devasted much of coastal region. Taken to illustrate reconstruction work projects of (catholic relief services) of sponsored photo tour

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Prayer room, interior of Jama Masjid mosque, Delhi, India

Nuns praying before eating, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

The nurses of the death chamber takes the man who just passed away in the room of meditation.

Prayer room in the New Synagogue of Ulm, Weinhof, Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Prayer room in the New Synagogue of Ulm, Weinhof, Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Monk waiting for lunch in the prayer room and dining room, Santa Temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China

Detail of altar in prayer room in the New Synagogue of Ulm, Weinhof, Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Holy shrine in the prayer room of the Umayyad-Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Middle East, Asia

Holy shrine in the prayer room of the Umayyad-Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Middle East, Asia

Man praying, Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Vairocana Buddha Prayer Wheel in the Ten Thousands Buddhas Pavilion, Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Chinatown, Singapore, Asia

Devotees covered in coloured powder praying, Holi festival, Banke Bihari Temple, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Ceiling details, "Rich chapel", the private Prayer Room of the Duke Maximilian I in the Residence Museum, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Wooden gate in the prayer room of the mosque, tomb complex of al-Muaiyad Shaykh, Old City, Cairo, Egypt, Africa

Late gotic altar in the church inaugurated to the saints of Ulrich and Wolfgang, Deutschnofen, Eggen valley, South Tyrol, Italy

Prayer room of the mosque, tomb complex of al-Muaiyad Shaykh, Old City, Cairo, Egypt, Africa

Prayer room for men, Sultan Quaboos Grand Mosque, Capital Area, Oman, Middle East

Doors to the prayer room, Tikse monastery, a Buddhist monastery, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Himalayas, northern India, India, Asia

Shoe racks, entrance to the prayer room, interior view of the Ditib Merkez Mosque, Germany's largest mosque, Duisburg-Marxloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe