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🇰🇷 Seoul, South KoreaTemplestay템플스테이 A program that invites visitors to live in South Korean Buddhist temples and join the daily routines of monastic life.Spiritual · Dinner

🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreLebaranHari Raya Lebaran Indonesia's festive season of homecoming, seeking forgiveness and shared feastsFestival · Breakfast

🇳🇬 Oyo, Nigeria and 3 moreSango Festival An annual Yoruba gathering in Nigeria honoring the deity of thunder and lightningFestival · Feasts and festival meals

🇪🇨 Quito, EcuadorFanesca Ecuador's Holy Week soup of grains, beans and salt cod, made for Good FridayTable custom · Lunch

🇮🇱 Israel and 5 moreChallahחַלָּה A braided Jewish bread, blessed and shared at Shabbat and holiday tablesTable custom · Feasts and festival meals

🇮🇳 India and 5 moreNativity of Mary A Christian feast day honouring the birth of Mary, the mother of JesusSpiritual · Lunch

🇮🇱 IsraelEve of Passover on Shabbatערב פסח Special Jewish calendar customs when the eve of Passover coincides with the SabbathSeasonal · Dinner

🇮🇱 Safed, Israel and 2 moreZemirotזמירות Jewish table hymns sung during the three meals of Shabbat and holidaysSpiritual · Dinner

🇮🇶 IraqShabbat mealsסעודות שבת Three ritual meals eaten across the Jewish Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday nightTable custom · Dinner

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Templestay: (c)한국불교문화사업단, culturalcorpsofkoreanbuddhism, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Fanesca: Agencia de Noticias ANDES, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Sango Festival: Demola Ajayi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Nativity of Mary: Giotto, Public domain, source
Lebaran: Nurudin Jauhari, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Eve of Passover on Shabbat: בעלת הזכויות - טלי אמתי, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Zemirot: ביקורת, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Shabbat meals: Yoninah, Public domain, source

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