Public prayer in the grounds of the Shipka Monastery Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.180 Национален Военноисторически Музей National Museum of Military History Sofia 45 Religious and Educational Structures Structures Armed Forces Uniform and Accouterment Military Technology War International Relations State Mourning Death Religious Practices Shipka Saddle -60.131,-62.664 Photograph Photographer 1902 Dimitar Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Dimitar Anastasov High angle panorama photograph of a ceremony in front of a cathedral. The Russian-Orthodox "Christ's Birth" cathedral, also referred to as "Shipka Monastery", was build to commemorate the victims of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 - 1878. The sanctification of the cathedral in 1902 coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Shipka Pass. Not specified Not specified 194 272 194 255 Bulgaria Shipka Cathedral "Christus Birth" Kassabova, Anelia (2013): Inclusion and Exclusion: The Role of Photography in the Nation-Building Process in Bulgaria from Approximately 1860 to World War I. In: Demski, Dagnosław, Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, and Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Eds.): Competing Eyes: Visual Encounters with Alterity in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest: L‘ Harmattan, 127.