Worshipping the pictures.....

Volume: 2, Book Number: 23, Hadith Number: 425
Narrated 'Aisha:
When the Prophet became ill, some of his wives talked about a church which they had seen in Ethiopia and it was called Mariya. Um Salma and Um Habiba had been to Ethiopia, and both of them narrated its (the Church's) beauty and the pictures it contained. The Prophet raised his head and said, "Those are the people who, whenever a pious man dies amongst them, make a place of worship at his grave and then they make those pictures in it. Those are the worst creatures in the Sight of Allah."

In islam worshipping any one or anything ecept for Islam is a BIG sin.In Olden times when pious people used to die,other people used to keep their pictures as memory but slowly people started worshipping them instead of the creator who sreated them.