Today, if two countries of the world have an argument or a fight, an organization called the United Nations is the go-between. The United Nations is a group of people from many nations who work to...
BIBLELAND
The Bible is a sacred book for Jews and Christians. The Christian Bible has two parts---the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Jewish Bible is the Old Testament. The word "bible" comes from a...
GARGOYLES IN THE GUTTERS
> This is one kind of gargoyle. Is that a monster, or a lion, or a giant bird looking down from the church top? It's a monster, half-man and half-beast. But it isn't real. It is made of stone and...
A CHURCH MUSEUM
> 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...
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