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PLACES OF WORSHIP
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PLACES OF WORSHIP
PROMISE AND LAW
BAHA'I TEMPLE
BAHA'I
FAITH
The Sydney Baha'i Temple, sometimes referred to as the Baha'i House of Worship is a sacred place for the people of the Baha'i Faith and was dedicated to Australia on the 17th of September 1961 and is currently one of the only seven Baha'i Temples in the world. Other Baha'i Temples can be found in Samoa, The United States of America, Germany, Uganda, India and Panama. All of these temples share certain architectural elements including being nine sided as there are nine main religions. The Sydney Baha'i Temple measures 40 meters in height from its base to the peak of its dome, and has seating for up to 600 people.
BAHA'I FAITH
BAHA'I FAITH
The Baha'i Faith is an Abrahamic religion started in the 1800s by Baha'ullah who was born in Tehran, Iran. Followers of this religion call themselves Baha’is and believe Baha'ullah is a representation of God, and shows people God's importance. Baha'is are monotheists which means that they believe in only one God. Baha'ullah was not the only man in the Baha’is opinions who carried messages from God believing Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha and these people where called ‘Manifestations of God.’
IMPORTANT BELIEFS
IMPORTANT BAHA'I BELIEFS
• Baha'ullah came to make all humans become one family
• There is only one God, but he has many names
• All the great religions have the same source (God)
• God treats all humans as equal
• God treats men and women as equal
• Prejudices (unkind beliefs about people without knowing them first) should be fixed
• Nations should learn to get along and co-operate with each other
• Science and religion do not have to disagree, because they are looking at the same world from two different sides.
• People should try to learn the truth for themselves
• Everyone should get an education (go to school or learn another way)
• The world should have one extra language that everyone understands
THE BAHA'I TEMPLE
MASADA SYNAGOGUE:
JUDAISM
The St. Ives Masada Synagogue, is a sacred place for the people of the Jewish Faith and was dedicated to Masada College in 1966 and is currently one of the seventeen synagogues in Sydney. All of these temples share certain architectural elements including the bimah which is the reading platform, the magen star which is the Star of David that you see when entering the synagogue, the ark which cupboards the torah scrolls, the yad, the kippah, the tallit and the mezuzah which all have a religious importance in synagogues.
JUDAISM FAITH
JUDAISM
FAITH
Judaism is a religion started in the 5th century BCE until 70 CE, when the Israelite religion developed into various theological schools of the Second Temple Judaism. Jewish history begins with the covenant established between God and Abraham around 3,800 years ago during the Bronze Age. The Torah which holds the Jewish Law, is the primary document of Judaism and was given to the Jews by the Prophet Moses around 3,300 years ago. The religion began when Jacobs twelve sons; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin formed the twelve tribes of Judaism and became tribal eponyms. Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion, teaching the belief in one God. Both Christianity and Islam have similarities with Judaism as these religions accept the belief in one God and the moral teachings of the Hebrew Bible the Torah which holds information on the Old Testament. The Jews also have many kosher foods, or foods that they are able to eat because they have cloven hooves. All animals without a cloven hove are not to be eaten by anyone who is Jewish as within the Old Testament God held a sheet which told the Jews what foods where forbidden.
IMPORTANT BELIEFS:
IMPORTANT
BELIEFS
The Ten Commandments:
1. “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me.”
2. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
3. “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.”
4. “Honour thy father and mother.”
5. “Thou shalt not kill.”
6. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
7. “Thou shalt not steal.”
8. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
9. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”
10. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”
MASADA
SYNAGOGUE
LAVENDER BAY CHURCH
CHRISTIANITY
The Lavender Bay Church, is a sacred place for the people of the Christian Faith and was dedicated to Lavender Bay in 1869 being constructed by William Eaton and is currently one of the one thousand one hundred churches in Australia. All of these churches share certain architectural elements including the nave which is the main part of the church and seats the congregation (the people who come to worship), the aisles which are the sides of the church which may run along the side of the nave, the transept is an area which crosses the nave near the top of the church and makes the church shaped like a cross, which symbolizes Jesus’ death on the cross and the chancel which leads up to the altar at the top of the church and can be found in the sanctuary which means “sacred place.”
CHRISTIAN FAITH
Christianity is a religion that started in the 1st century AD, as a Jewish sect although quickly spread throughout the Greco- Roman World. According to the gospels, written decades after the events of his life Jesus preached for a period of one to three years in the early 1st century. His ministry of teaching, healing the sick and disabled and performing various miracles culminated in his crucifixion at the hands of the Roman authorities in Jerusalem in the 1st century AD. Christians believe in one God who is our heavenly father, Jesus who is Gods son and the Holy Spirt who is the third person in the Trinity and is God’s presence in the world. There are different branches of Christianity and although they mostly share the same beliefs there are few differences between each branch of Christianity. Some of these branches can include Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Seventh Day Adventist, Uniting Church, Fangcheng Fellowship and the United Methodist.
IMPORTANT CHRISTIAN BELIEFS
IMPORTANT BELIEFS
The Ten Commandments:
1. “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me.”
2. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
3. “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.”
4. “Honour thy father and mother.”
5. “Thou shalt not kill.”
6. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
7. “Thou shalt not steal.”
8. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
9. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”
10. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”
LAVENDER BAY CHURCH
LAKEMBA MOSQUE
MUSLIM
The Lakemba Mosque, is a sacred place for the people of the Muslim Faith and was dedicated to Lakemba in 1977. The mosque is reportedly Australia's largest mosque and the Lakemba Mosque was the first purpose-built mosque in Sydney. The mosque is now owned and managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association or the LMA. All of these mosques share certain architectural elements including the Minaret or the Minare which are built above the mosque and are used to call out prayers from the roof of the mosque to Muhammad, the Mihrab which is the position of the person leading the congregation in prayer, and is by most considered the most holy place in the mosque, the Minbar or the Minber are used to bless or pray for someone and is used for giving oaths, the Imam is used to hold the leader of congregational prayers while the Muezzin is a place where people within the mosque are permitted to carry out debates. There are now 340 mosque in Australia with Islam becoming the second most popular religion in the world.
MUSLIM FAITH
Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century, approximately 600 years after the founding of Christianity. Islam, is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion and Muslims consider the Quran, their holy book to be the word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. It is the world's second-largest religion and the fastest-growing major religion in the world, with over 1.8 billion followers or 24.1% of the global population, known as Muslims. The Muslims have only one Haram food (food they are forbidden to eat) and it is pork or pig as they are unable to eat meat that dies for themselves.
IMPORTANT MUSLIM BELIEFS
1. Belief in Allah, The Only God.
2. Belief in the Angels.
3. Belief in Holy Books (Quran)
4. Belief in the Prophets.
5. Belief in the Day of Judgment.
6. Belief in God's predestination.