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- Muslims believe that anyone who helps to build a mosque wins great favour with whom?
- Allah
- At one end of the mosque there is a _______ where Muslims wash themselvesin _______ water before entering the mosque to pray
- courtyard, running water
- The ritual that they follow to do this, called ____, is an important part of Muslim worship
- wudu
- Why are there no images or pictures on the wall?
- this is beacuse the Qur'an forbids any representation of peaople or animals to prevent idol worship
- What is the use of the niche?
- to indicate the direction of the holy city of Mecca(qiblah)
- What is the niche called?
- mihrab.Everyone faces the mihrab when they pray
- Where does the imam sit to deliver his service?
- on a platform to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers
- Who is the imam?
- The imam is a learned and well respected man who knows the teachings of the Qur'an and so can offer his advice and support to the Muslim community
- Wat is the madrasah?
- a school where children go after their ordinary school day to learn Arabic and study the Qur'an
- What are minarets?
- these are towers from which the mu'adhin issues his regular call to prayer, the adhan
- The Muslim call to prayer, given from the minaret of the mosque.
- Adhan
- Towers outside a mosque.
- Minarets
- The platform from which the imam delivers his sermon in a mosque.
- Minbar
- The person who calls Muslims to prayer five times a day.
- Mu'adhin
- The direction which Muslims face when performing salah-towards Mecca.
- Quiblah
- The formal prayer undertaken by Muslims and recited in Arabic five times a day
- Salah
- The ritual washing routine that Muslims follow before prayers.
- Wudu
- In Britain, which is home to one of the largest Hindu communities outside India, a house or a disused church is often converted into a what?
- mandir
- Where does the worship centre around?
- the family shrine that they have at home
- However some Hindus visit the mandir every week to do what?
- place offerings at the feet of one of the statues of the gods or gooddesses(murtis)
- Inside many mandirs there is a special room called what?
- the garbagriha
- What happen in that room?
- smaller images of the gods and goddesses are taken at night
- As part of the preperation for a day's worship, the priest lay offerings of what?
- fruit, flowers and incense in front of the statues
- On special festival days statues are dressed in what?
- fine clothes and have a golden crown placed on thier heads
- True or False. The Mosques have no seats.
- True, the men, women and children sit together
- What is an avatar?
- the special apearance of a god on earth is called an avatar.
- Who was a well known avatar?
- Krishna
- Who is Brahman?
- the Supreme Spirit in Hinduism and Vishnu is one of the forms in which Brahman makes himself known
- What makes a visit to a mandir inportant?
- the attitude of the worshippers as they come to present their offerings to the murtis
- When a god descends to earth in the form of a human being or an animal.
- avatar
- One of the most popular Hindu gods; an avatar of Vishnu.
- Krishna
- One of the most popular Hindu gods.
- Vishnu
- What are holy books or scriptures?
- these are writings that are believed to carry God's message and it is this that gives them their special authority
- Because of the importance believers do what?
- they treat their holy books with greatest respect and they play a central part in nearly all acts of worship
- The Bible took how many years to put in its final form?
- 1500
- It had over how many different authors?
- 60
- What do Muslims believe about the Qur'an?
- that it is the word of God and so it cannot be replaced as the authority for everything that a Muslim believes and does.It is a perfect record of the revalations given by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad
- What happens to a scroll when it reaches the end of its useful life?
- it is buried just as a human being is-it is never destroyed
- What is the most important part of the scriptures?
- the teachings they contain
- Jews divide their scriptures into 3 parts what are they?
- the Torah; the Nevi'im(the Books of the Prophet) and the Ketuvim(the Writngs)
- What are the most important books of the New Testament?
- the four Gospels;Mathew, Mark, Luke and John
- The first 3 gospels hav a similar approach to telling this storyand they are called what?
- Synoptic Gospels
- Luke wrote which other book in the New Testament?
- the Acts of the Apostle
- How many letters are in the New Testament?
- 21
- The main letter writer was who?
- Paul
- One of Jesus's disciples; a missionary and writer of many books in the New Testament
- Paul
- The name given to the first five books of the Jewish scriptures:Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deutoronomy and Numbers
- teknah
- Three of the four Gospels-Mathew, Mark and Luke-in the New Testament in the Bible, which are similar to each other
- Synoptic Gospels