Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Kaaba and the Circumambulating Crowd
A dark cubical structure stands within a broad courtyard surrounded by arcades and hillside buildings. Small groups move across the open ground. The book reproduces the Kaaba within its account of the imagery adopted by the Mystic Shrine.
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Photographer not identified. "The Kaaba and the Circumambulating Crowd" [editorial title]. In The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine, Raymond Sidney Tompkins; edited by Whitney W. Jones. Boumi Temple jubilee volume; copyright 1934, undated edition, Boumi Temple. Source scan leaf 11. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0010
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical image from an American fraternal organisation’s commemorative volume. Its theatrical desert imagery reflects the organisation’s period visual language.
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Photographer not identified. The Kaaba and the Circumambulating Crowd. The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine. Scan leaf 11. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0010