Public prayer in the grounds of the Shipka MonasteryVisualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950Anelia KassabovaeditorCentre for Southeast European History, University GrazCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:vase.180Национален Военноисторически МузейNational Museum of Military History Sofia45Religious and Educational StructuresStructuresArmed ForcesUniform and AccoutermentMilitary TechnologyWarInternational RelationsStateMourningDeathReligious PracticesShipka Saddle-60.131,-62.664PhotographPhotographer1902Dimitar AnastasovKarastoyanovKarastoyanov, Dimitar AnastasovHigh 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 specifiedNot specified194272194255BulgariaShipkaCathedral "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.