Devotional Displays: Personal and Community Traditions

Marion Faller, Altar for Rosario de la Cruz at Mt. Carmel Parish Rochester NY, 1998 Color Photograph

Exhibit:  April 4, 2008 – December 14, 2008
Reception:  1969-12-31

Overview

Devotional displays are created at the crossroads of folk and formal religious belief. They exist in a wide variety of forms in cultures worldwide—and in many communities in the Greater Niagara region. This exhibition will draw on photographic works from the museum’s permanent collection as well as new documentation. Hindu domestic prayer altars, Asian shrines to ancestors, Polish American Easter altars and Puerto Rican altars built in connection with the annual spring celebration of the Rosario de la Cruz will be among the traditions represented.