Home›Liturgical Rituals›Obligation›ObligatoryBrowse ByObligatoryThis page groups rituals by whether performing them is a required duty or a voluntary devotion. Wikipedia notes that "for daily prayers, practicing Muslims must perform a ritual recitation from the Quran in Arabic while bowing and prostrating." Browsing this way lets a visitor separate a mandatory rite from one an adherent may choose to observe or not.FactsObligatorySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1ObligatoryFilter Results7 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll200 (1)330 (1)FrequencyAllDaily (7)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (7)Social FormAllPerformed by an officiant for a recipient (1)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (7)PractitionerAllClergy or ordained officiants (7)Native To RegionAllEgypt (1)Italy (1)Mesopotamia (1)TraditionAllArmenian Apostolic Church (1)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of Greece (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (1)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Maronite Church (1)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (3)Roman Catholicism (2)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Saint Thomas Christians (2)Serbian Orthodox Church (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Originated InAllEgypt (1)Italy (1)Mesopotamia (1)Originates In LanguageAllClassical Armenian (1)Classical Syriac (2)Coptic (1)Koine Greek (1)Latin (2)Old Church Slavonic (1)Kind of ritualAllByzantine Liturgies (1)Oriental and Syriac Christian Rites (4)Western Christian Liturgical Rites (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 7Ambrosian RiteObligatoryArmenian RiteObligatoryByzantine RiteObligatoryCoptic RiteObligatoryEast Syriac RiteObligatoryRoman RiteObligatoryWest Syriac RiteObligatorySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.