File:Pavilion Beside Burning Ghat, Jammu, India, ca.1875-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-005).jpg

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Pavilion Beside Burning Ghat, Jammu, India, ca.1875-ca.1940
"Pavilion beside burning ghat". In Hinduism ghat refers to broad steps leading down to one of the sacred rivers. Some of these, known as aburning ghatsa, are used for cremation; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jammu City, which is also known as the "City of Temples". A mission station occupied by Church of Scotland missionaries was founded here in the late 19th/early 20th century. Jammu is also one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-005.tif
Coverage date: 1875/1940
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Geographic subject (region): Jammu and Kashmir
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1721.url
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): India
Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
Geographic subject (continent): Asia
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: In the Temple City of Jammu LS10
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Rites and ceremonies
Date created: 1875/1940
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): exterior views
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m69217
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS10/5
Date 1875/1940
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64839
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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