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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 pages will show you places of worship where people of different
religions pray.

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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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…

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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…

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