Saturday, June 03, 2006

Inter-faith Communication

Here's a pic from an inter-faith communication tour/gathering that I went on today. We visited a mosque, several churches, and an old synagogue. This is one of the ancient churches in "Coptic Cairo". I learned today that the pulpit in churches predates those in mosques by a significant amount of time. The story that I was told is that the pulpit in the oldest mosque in Cairo was given by a church...



The person wrapped in green is a woman who needed to be "properly dressed" to be in this mosque. These robes are provided at some mosques.



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