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Slunj

Orthodox Christians place lit candles in the low sandboxes in memory of the dead

lit candles are placed in the tall metal candlesticks with a prayer for the health of the living.

This item comes from a region where place names vary historically and politically. We have used the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) as a source for controlled place names. (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/)

The exact date of this image is unknown. The date supplied is an approximation based on the date range of 1979-1994.