For thousands of years, people have built places where they can pray and
worship. Jews build synagogues, Moslems build mosques, Christians build
churches, and Buddhists build temples.
The next pages will show you places of worship where people of different
religions pray.
THE DISAPPEARING TOE AT SAINT PETER S
> The huge dome of Saint Peter’s Church in Vatican City looks like > this when you look up at it from inside. Your big toe might wear away, too, if people kissed it every day for years and years…
THE REAL MECCA
If you want to be a hajji, you have to make a hajj. A hajj is a pilgrimage, or journey, to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Moslems, as believers in the religion of Islam are called, try to make a…
A HOLY CITY FOR HINDUS
The city of Varanasi, India, also known as Banaras, has more than a thousand places to pray—temples for people who belong to the Hindu religion. Most Hindu temples have many shrines. Hindus go to…
HAIR FOR HONEY
> The golden building is a shrine to Buddha. It is in Rangoon, Burma. Once, there lived a man who was a great teacher and doctor. People thought that he was so wise that they gave him the title…
