Hello!

A while back we started a new unit in Humanities: Religion and Worldview. The driving question of the unit is: “How is the worldview of a religion represented in the real world?”
So, we have been studying many religions and their beliefs and just last week and this week, we have gone on a few field trips! Last week we went out for a whole day to a place called “Highway to Heaven” in Richmond, which is an area of a whole bunch of religious buildings. We went to a Hindu temple, 2 Buddhist temples and a Sikh temple that day. Each place spoke to us about the religion and we took some pictures.

Here are some statues inside the Hindu temple:

 

 

They each represent a god in the Hindu religion.

Here are some photos from the first Buddhist temples, the Tibetan Thrangu Monastery:

Here are some pictures from the second Buddhist place:

Here are some pictures from the Sikh temple:

We also went to a United Church and then a Islamic mosque this week, but only for the last two blocks of school.
Here are some pictures from the United church:

Here’s a picture in the Islamic Mosque:

That is where the sermon speaker would stand to do his sermon.

Each place was unique and very interesting. It was a good experience because I hadn’t been in most of those places, and now I understand more about each religion and their beliefs.

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