Vespers
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Vespers is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic, Orthodoxy, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies.
Cistercians singing vespers in Santa Maria de Poblet in Catalonia
Incensing the congregation during the Magnificat at an Advent celebration of Vespers
Orthodox priest and deacon making the Entrance with the censer at Great Vespers
Table set with five loaves, wheat, wine and oil for artoklassia
Compline
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Compline, also known as Complin, night prayer, or the prayers at the end of the day, is the final or office of the liturgical day in the Christian tradition of the canonical hours.
Vespers
…on the performance of psalms and other biblical canticles. Eastern Orthodox liturgies recognised as vespers (εσπερινός, esperinós) often conclude with Compline, especially the all-night vigil. Performing these liturgies together without break was also a common practice in medieval Europe, especially outside…
Book of hours open at compline (Eisbergen Monastery in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
The start of compline in the Anglo-Catholic Anglican Service Book (1991)
Monks praying compline in St Nazianz, Wisconsin, US
Agpeya Breviary