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Women and girls kneeling in prayer at At-Taqwa Mosque in Taiwan.. There can be two occasions of sitting in a regular raka'ah. One is after the first prostration and the other is after the second prostration, sometimes referred to as the tashahhud.
The Missal, by John William Waterhouse (1902), depicts a woman kneeling on a prie-dieu, a piece of furniture with a built-in kneeler. A kneeler is a cushion (also called a tuffet, hassock, genuflexorium, or genuflectorium) or a piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer.
Orans, a loanword from Medieval Latin orans (Latin: [ˈoː.raːns]) translated as "one who is praying or pleading", also orant or orante, as well as lifting up holy hands, is a posture or bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with the hands outstretched sideways, palms up.
The Sick Man by Vasili Maximov (1881) portrays a woman kneeling in prayer before the icon corner (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia with an icon corner in her bedroom (1915 or 1916, colorized by her sister Maria).
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The drawing is related to the painting W27 : Study of the legs of a seated woman: c. 1628: Chalk: 22.6 x 17.6 cm: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W37 : The Raising of the Cross: 1628-1629: Black chalk, heightened with white, framing lines in pencil and with the pen and brown ink: 19.3 x 14.8 cm: Museum Boijmans Van ...
According to the artist's description, the painting depicts a knight praying in the chapel of the Église Saint-Irénée de Lyon, which had been ruined by the Baron des Adrets in 1562. The knight is seen kneeling in a prayer in front a tomb, beneath a window. The interior of the chapel is very dark and devoided of any significant decoration.
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