Quinceañera ceremony

Title

Quinceañera ceremony

Description

A young woman kneeling before a Catholic Priest during her Quinceañera, the coming of age celebration in Latino cultures for fifteen year-old girls. Traditionally girls wear pink and wear a crown of flowers as symbols of their purity. Photograph likely taken inside St. Alexander Catholic Church.

Identifier

CCpic_842

Creator

Rangel, Francisco, photographer

Subject

Quinceañera (Social custom)

Initiation rites--Religious aspects--Christianity

Worship

Religion

Faith

Church

Priests

Ethnic & Cultural Studies

Social History

Latino Interest

Spatial Coverage

Cornelius, Oregon

Rights

Online access to this image is for research and educational purposes only. To inquire about permissions, order a reproduction, or for more information, please contact Centro Cultural at centroinfo@centrocultural.org.

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Date Created

circa 1990

Date

1990

Medium

color slides

Source

Centro Cultural Photography Collection

Type

Still Image