> This view of Istanbul, Turkey, includes the Hagia Sophia, the largest > building on the left. If you become a famous soldier, you might have a city named for you. That's what happened to a great...
GIFT OF STONE
Before the temple in this picture was built near Chicago, Illinois, a man from Persia (now called Iran) arrived to mark the place where the temple would rise. Some people say that as a small group of...
NO ECHOES
If you talk or sing before an audience, and your voice echoes, the echo makes your words bump into each other. That's bad, because people can't understand what you're saying or singing. Great...
THE MOST SACRED SHRINE FOR JEWS
Strong voices ring out in song as other voices join in prayer. It's Friday evening in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Sabbath, a holy day for people of the Jewish faith, is beginning. The people...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP
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...
CITY IN A CITY
The lawmakers of Israel had no place of their own to meet. So they built most of their government buildings in an area that became something like a city in a city. It is called Quiriat Ben- Gurion.,...
