New normal: Worshiping in the age of COVID-19

Worshippers keep a safe distance from each other at the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

A medic checks the temperature of a Syrian worshipper before entering the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

Belfast's oldest Catholic Church, St Mary's in Chapel Lane, placed signs to create a one-way system, installed hand sanitizer gel dispensers at the entrance, and limited the number of pews open for parishioners to maintain a 2-meter distance.

Priest Roman Tsokur and believers during an outdoor service at St Tatiana's church of the Trubilin Kuban State Agrarian University in Krasnodar, Russia.

Pastor Billy Jones stands inside a potato delivery truck as he delivers his sermon to his parishioners, sat inside their cars to social distance, in the parking lot at Dunseverick Baptist Church in Northern Ireland on May 24 during a drive-in Sunday church service.

Akcakoca Mosque, Turkey's only octagon mosque, is being disinfected as a preventive measure against COVID-19.

Muslims offer prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the Eid al-Fitr festival.

Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at a field in the Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, on May 24.

Nuns and faithfuls attend the Regina Caeli Sunday prayer in the reopened St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on May 24 in Rome.

Residents pray in a mosque fitted with plastic curtains at the Ar-Rosuli Islamic Boarding School in Semarang regency in Indonesia. 

People disinfect their hands for Friday prayer at the entrance of the Massalikul Jinaan Mosque in Dakar. 

Buddhist monks wearing face masks as a preventive measure pray at Phleng temple in Thailand. 

A deacon at Maghaberry Elim Pentecostal Church, Craigavon, deposits offerings and mission boxes given by attendees at a drive-in service.

Believers wearing protective face masks attend the first mass publicly given at the Notre Dame de la Garde Basilica in Marseille on May 24.

Father Scott Holmer hears confessions in the parking lot of St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Bowie, Maryland.

A woman attends a mass at the Cappella Feriale of the Duomo cathedral in Milan on May 18.

Fabian Arias, a Lutheran pastor with Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan, prepares his Sunday services via an internet live stream on May 24 in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.

A person washes his hands as he enters the cathedral as part of the sanitarian measurements, in Malaga, Spain, on May 24.

Belfast's oldest Catholic Church, St. Mary's in Chapel Lane, reopens for solitary prayer.

A father adjusts his son's face mask during Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.

Imam records his preaching of the Friday prayer to be broadcast on social networks in Abidjan.

Devotees wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 practice social distancing while praying at a temple in Surabaya on May 7 as Buddhists celebrate Vesak Day.

A woman prays inside Santa Maria in Trastevere Basilica on May 10 in Rome. Italy has eased its movement restrictions after a two-month lockdown.

A nun undergoes body-temperature scanning while going through security to access St. Peter's Square and Basilica on May 18 in the Vatican.

An altar boy stands in the central aisle of the Basilica of Neuchatel. Pews display the portraits of 400 parishioners unable to attend mass due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

A face mask is placed on the face of a giant Buddha statue at Wat Nithet Rat Pradit temple in Pathum Thani outside Bangkok on May 12.

A young volunteer wipes off the rainwater at the Golden Temple complex during the nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus on May 14 in Amritsar, India.

A Sikh devotee pays his respects from afar on the anniversary of Guru Amar Das at the Golden Temple.

A Buddhist monk (center-left) seated next to a Hindu priest (center-right) gives a sermon as Buddhist and Hindu devotees pray on Vesak Day, a festival also known as Buddha Jayanti to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha, at the Sri Gnanabairava Swami Hindu temple in Colombo.

A volunteer of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal sanitizes the Hanuman temple in New Delhi.

A municipal corporation worker sanitizes a temple on Purulia Road in Ranchi, India.

Jewish men wearing the tallit, a traditional Jewish prayer shawl, and the tefillin (or phylacteries), a small black leather box containing scrolls of parchment with verses from the Torah, pray keeping distance from each other outside their closed synagogue in Netanya.

Members of the Church of the International Reconstruction Ministry in protective suits pray for a person through a drive-in of prayer.

The Rev. Esteban Lopez wears a face mask as he checks the temperature of the people before entering the Sagrada Familia Church in Mexico City.

Father Christoper Williams gives communion to parishioners in their cars outside of the Basilica of San Albino on May 2 in Mesilla, New Mexico.

Members of the Potential Church in Cooper City, Florida, pray together after the church opened its doors on May 24 to a select group of people with safety measures in place.

Mario Carvalho prays inside the Blessed Sacrament Chapel attached to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, which has roped off pews to cut down on the number of people who can be inside at one time, part of a social distancing measure.

People line up in respect of security distancing to access St. Peter's Basilica on May 18.