Vigils and Memorials

Images of flowers and candles at vigils and memorials, capturing a somber, reflective mood for honoring those lost in various events.

USA, Massachusetts, Salem. Stone memorial to the Salem Witch Trials

Funeral wreaths in honor to the ones dead in the protests on abuse of authority cases are set at the entrance of the Colombian congress capitol as citizens and demonstrators support the congress sesion in which Minister of Defence Diego Molano was put into Motion of No Confidence (Motion Censor) after the cases of police brutality during the first month of protests in Colombia that now reach at least 45 dead in police and abuse of authority cases. In Bogota, Colombia on May 24, 2021.

Mausoleum at St. Louis #3 Cemetery on All Saints Day, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, North America

After the attack grief and anger after the attack in the city center of Magdeburg in Germany

Wall with decorated urns graves in a cemetery in Sardinia, Bari Sardo, Ogliastra, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Vigil in St Ann's Square, Manchester, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

MUERTE DEL PAPA JUAN PABLO II (KAROL JOZEF WOJTYLA), (Wadowice, 1920-Ciudad de El Vaticano, 2005). "VELAS ENCENDIDAS POR EL PONTIFICE". Ciudad de El Vaticano. Italia.

USA, Massachusetts, Salem. Stone memorial to the Salem Witch Trials

Traditional cemetery. Small town of Cachi in the Valles Calchaquies region, Salta Province. South America, Argentina (Editorial Use Only)

MUERTE DEL PAPA JUAN PABLO II (KAROL JOZEF WOJTYLA), (Wadowice, 1920-Ciudad de El Vaticano, 2005). "VELAS ENCENDIDAS POR EL PONTIFICE". Ciudad de El Vaticano. Italia.

niches, Alqueria Blanca and Calonge cemetery, Santanyi, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Grave with faded artificial flowers and angel, Evangelischer Friedhof -unter der Burghalde-, Kempten, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Guatemala, Antigua, San Francisco Church

Romania, Transylvania, Carpathian Mountains. North Bucovina Children traditionally dressed for seasonal festival.

Atentado terrorista en las Ramblas de Barcelona el 17 de agosto de 2017. Homenaje a las victmas por parte de ciudadanos.

San Andres Itzapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Candles burning at a temple to San Simon, or Maximon. (Editorial Use Only)

Antigua, Guatemala. During the observance of Lent in Guatemala, the Catholic celebrations leading to Holy Week, venerated images of Jesus and the Holy Virgin are carried through the city.

Citizens lighting candles and paying homage after terrorist attack by Deccan Mujahideen on 26th November 2008 Mumbai India Copyright: xSubhashxSharma/DinodiaxPhotox

Flower market in front of the Church of Santo Tomas, Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

oficiando plegarias y ofrendas del dia de muertos, cementerio General, Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, República de Guatemala, América Central.

San Gaspar Chajul, departamento del Quiché , Triángulo Ixil, Guatemala, America Central.

Lettering "Zum Todestag", German for "in commemoration of the anniversary of the death", a wreath of flowers on a grave, white candles

Atentado terrorista en las Ramblas de Barcelona el 17 de agosto de 2017. Homenaje a las victmas por parte de ciudadanos.

Crucifixes and flowers hanging on memorial fence

A grave marker in a Christian church near Seward, Alaska

Tombs are decorated with candles and flowers in the cemetery.

A demonstrator holds a cross with the name of one of the demonstrators dead during the protests in Colombia in a police brutality case sets it in front of funeral wreaths as citizens and demonstrators support the congress sesion in which Minister of Defence Diego Molano was put into Motion of No Confidence (Motion Censor) after the cases of police brutality during the first month of protests in Colombia that now reach at least 45 dead in police and abuse of authority cases. In Bogota, Colombia on May 24, 2021.

Vigil in Washington Square last night.New York, September 11, 2002Photo: Corina Arranz...ARCHDC.

Jizo statues at the Garden of Unborn Children, Zoj-ji temple, Tokyo, Japan.

Romania, Maramures, Sapanta. Cimitirul Vesel, The Merry Cemetery. Cemetery with satirical epitaphs carved on crosses of the dead.

A boy sits in a tomb decorated with candles and yellow marigold flowers during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City

Birmingham, Alabama, The 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb placed by the Ku Klux Klan killed four girls during the 1963 civil rights movement in Birmingham. Flowers are placed at the place where the bomb was planted.

Zapotec woman holding candle among graves adorned with marigolds, Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Italy. Rome. Altar who commemorates the place where Julius Caesar was cremated at the Temple of the Divine Julius. Flowers. Detail.

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca, Xoxocotlan Cemetary, Day of the Dead celebration.

People lighting candles outside Gateway paying victims of terrorist attack Deccan Mujahedeen on 26th November 2008 in Bomba Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Many religious candles inside a catholic church

The gravesites are decorated with flowers at the Cayambe cemetery in the highlands of Ecuador near Quito.

On 13 and 14 February 1945, Dresden was heavily destroyed in three Allied bombing raids. Every year, the people of Dresden commemorate this event at various events. A giant candle, into which citizens could place small candles, commemorates the event in front of the rebuilt Church of Our Lady, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Grave lights on Sunday of the dead at the cemetery in Possendorf. Possendorf, Saxony, Germany, Europe

On the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the Reich Pogrom Night, the commemoration ceremony took place at the Bruehlscher Garten stele, Hasenberg, on Tuesday, 9 November 2021, at 3.30 pm. This is where the Dresden synagogue designed by Gottfried Semper and inaugurated in 1840 stood until it was destroyed in the Night of Broken Glass

Memorial for Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the Supreme Court

Guardian deity of children,Buddhism

Commemorative event on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of the victims of National Socialism, at the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under National Socialism in Berlin, 31 January 2024

Supporters and employees of ABS-CBN, the country's largest broadcast network, light candles and shout slogans as they join a protest in front of the ABS-CBN building in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by: Basilio H. Sepe/Majority World/UIG)

All Saints Day at Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland

Kosovo Serbs gather in the Gracanica Cemetary to honor their departed loved ones, on Nov 4, the Day of the Dead. - May not be used in defamation towards Serbian people.

Fort Myers, FL, USA--10/30/22--A memorial for people who lost loved ones or are missing loved ones was created in Centennial Park. It has been a place for people to add flowers and pictures in their memory following Hurricane Ian.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Flowers at the Tomb of Merlin, Menhir, Paimpont Forest, Ille-et-Vilaine, Broceliande, Brittany, Saga, Legend, France, Europe

Blick auf den Gedenkplatz an der Johanniskirche Magdeburg wo Betroffene und Trauernde Menschen am 21.12.2024 Blumen,Kerzen und Teddys niederlegen Blick auf den Gedenkplatz am Westportal an der Johanniskirche Magdeburg wo Betroffene und Trauernde Menschen am 21.12.2024 Blumen,Kerzen und Teddys niederlegen - View,memorial site at twest portal at St. John s Church in Magdeburg where those affected and mourners lay flowers,candles,teddy bears on 21.12.2024 Copyright: xZoonar.com/AxelxKammererx 22643982

Denmark, Greenland, Traditional cemetery; Upernarvik

Madrid, 11/01/2016. All Saints' Day. Report on the Almudena cemetery. Photo: Jaime García ARCHDC.

Madrid, 11/01/2021. La Almudena Cemetery. All Saints' Day. Relatives placing flowers on the grave of their deceased on All Souls' Day. Photo: Jaime García. ARCHDC.

Flame of Remembrance, Arc de Triomphe, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France, Europe

Yerevan, Yerevan Province, Armenia. The eternal flame with flowers, in the Memorial Hall at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex.

Graves are decorated with flowers and candles in a cemetery in San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico City.

All Saints Day at Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

Eurasia, Caucasus, Armenia, Yerevan, genocide memorial

Falfurrias, Texas, Graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery where the remains of unidentified migrants are buried. Dozens of migrants without legal papers die each year in the long, hot walk around a Border Patrol checkpoint 70 miles north of the Mexican border.

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Burning candle, Vatican City, Rome, Latium region, Italy, Europe

Carpet of flowers during the Corpus Christi procession, JHS monogram, Jesus Christ, Muehldorf am Inn, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Incense and candles in a temple, Bangkok, Thailand, Asia

Muslim graves for children, strictly orientated towards Mecca, children's graves, separate from adults, main cemetery, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

A pagan cult coupled with a traditional church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Day of the Dead is celebrated intensely around Lake Patzcuaro. Preparations include cemetery cleaning and repair, and the creation of flowered arches for church gates. Patzcuaro, Mexico

Tourists participating in a Zapotec cleansing ceremony in the courtyard garden of Casa Cuubi in San Antonino Castillo Velasco near Oaxaca, Mexico.

Vigil in St Ann's Square, Manchester, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

Michael Jackson star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA

Italy, Rome on 2022-04-15. Easter ceremony and torchlight procession at the foot of the hill in the presence of Pope Francis. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Italy, Rome le 2022-04-15. Ceremonie de Paques et procession aux flambeaux au pied du Collisee en presence du Pape Francois. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Anefo photo collection. Demonstration in Amsterdam in connection with the death of 4 Ned. journalists and the situation in El Salvador. For American consulate 5 Wooden crosses. March 19, 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Wedding Ceremony at the Tropical Coast Line.Asia.

Figures and crosses of an old cemetery in Barcelona

Denmark, Greenland, Traditional cemetery; Upernarvik

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Michal Mazowiecki, the son of former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, after paying his respects at the father's gravesite in Laski Cemetery outside Warsaw, Poland, on November 4, 2013.

mercado de flores, . Chichicastenango , Municipio del departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

Rome, the shirt that Pope John Paul II wore on the day of the attack is kept as a relic in a convent in Rome. In the photo Sister Beatrice Priori.

Italy, Tuscany, Lucca. Red flower petals and white papers left on the steps of a church after a wedding in the historic town of Lucca.

Christmas candles . Roman Catholic church. Lyon. France.

Girl Lighting Votive Candles In The Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Lettering "Zum Todestag", German for "in commemoration of the anniversary of the death", a wreath of flowers on a grave, white candles

Usa, Tennessee, Memphis, Tourists At Gracelands Looking At Elvis PresleyS Grave

Martyrs Lane, with memorial portraits amidst verdant trees and a serene atmosphere, Baku, Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan - May 6, 2024: Martyrs Lane, with memorial portraits amidst verdant trees and a serene atmosphere Copyright: xZoonar.com/KHALEDxELADAWYx 22052684

Israel, Jerusalem. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.

Columbine Tragedy/Memorial Service

Vigil for the deceased FCM fan Hannes S. in front of the MDCC Arena Magdeburg on 12 October 2016

Road side cross at urban intersection memorial for traffic death.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A wreath and other floral arrangements rest beneath the Astronaut Memorial Mirror at the KSC Visitor Complex following a memorial service held for the crew of Columbia on the anniversary of the tragic accident that took their lives Feb. 1, 2003. The service included comments by Center Director Jim Kennedy, Deputy Director Woodrow Whitlow Jr., Executive Director of Florida Space Authority Winston Scott, and Dr. Stephen Feldman, president of the Astronaut Memorial Foundation, who placed the wreath at the mirror. The black granite mirror honors astronauts, whose names are carved in the surface, who have given their lives for space exploration.

Ottawa, Canada. June 1st, 2021. Members of First Nations communities perform a ceremony in memory of the 215 children found buried at a former Kamloops, British Colombia residential school at a memorial in front of the Canadian Parliament. Credit: meanderingemu/Alamy Live News

Mang Den Virgin Mary Pilgrimage Center, Kon Tum Diocese. The Virgin Mary. Faithful praying to the Holy Virgin. Mang Den. Vietnam.

Vigil in St Ann's Square, Manchester, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

floral offering to the Virgin of Carmen , marine procession of the Virgin of Carmen, Portinatx, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Europe, France, Lourdes, evening procession

Memorial of the massacre of Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Caucasus, Russia, Eurasia

Memorial cross placed on the side of the road at the site of a deadly traffic accident, with an inscription, Riederich, Reutlingen Region, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

tumbas de colores, celebracion del dia de muertos en el Cementerio General, Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, República de Guatemala, América Central.

Flowers Candles Taj Mahal hotel terrorist attack by Deccan Mujahedeen on 26th November 2008 in Bombay Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

20 12 2024, Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Music, Singer, Memorial to the Late Michael Jackson, Memorial Site, Germany

People light candles in the shape of a ribbon during an awareness rally on the eve of World Aids Day in Agartala, Tripura, India.

Armenia, Yerevan. Armenian Genocide Memorial, monument to the massacre of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1922, eternal flame.

Blick auf den Gedenkplatz an der Johanniskirche Magdeburg wo Betroffene und Trauernde Menschen am 21.12.2024 Blumen,Kerzen und Teddys niederlegen Blick auf den Gedenkplatz am Westportal an der Johanniskirche Magdeburg wo Betroffene und Trauernde Menschen am 21.12.2024 Blumen,Kerzen und Teddys niederlegen - View of the memorial site at the west portal at St. John s Church in Magdeburg where those affected and mourners lay flowers, candles and teddy bears on 21.12.2024 Copyright: xZoonar.com/AxelxKammererx 22643977

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