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Are Mosques Nicer Than Churches?
rickbe
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I'm not Moslem but have to say on the whole I find mosques more attractive than churches. Especially the inside. After all, they're fitted with a nice carpet. And people take their shoes off before they go in. Bit like a living room.
Churches on the other hand seem designed to repel. Cold stone masonry, cold stone walls that echo, hard wooden benches. Can't say I'm a fan of organ music either, I find it a bit sinister. Its sort of doom music, also it reminds me of school. Plus all these memorial stones and tablets about world wars.
Maybe churches would attract more people they made their interiors more appealing.
Wonder if other people also feel this way.
Churches on the other hand seem designed to repel. Cold stone masonry, cold stone walls that echo, hard wooden benches. Can't say I'm a fan of organ music either, I find it a bit sinister. Its sort of doom music, also it reminds me of school. Plus all these memorial stones and tablets about world wars.
Maybe churches would attract more people they made their interiors more appealing.
Wonder if other people also feel this way.
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No idea - but it's what goes on in some of them that worries me - not the decor or the architecture however 'cuddly' it is.
Succint, and to the point
Also Mosques inside are just really open spaces. You don't like hard wooden benches but even that is a step up from sitting on the floor. not a fan of organ music either but the mosque call to prayer is hardly a beat you can get down to at 6.00 am in the morning.
I dont think the purpose of either building is designed with comfort in mind to be honest. In fact I would go as far to say the opposite is the true the point is to reflect on your faith.
While I don't dislike mosques I do find the old churches more interesting. If you go into the cathedral they are truly stunning places to see. You cannot help but be impressed with places like winchester cathedral.
That is not to say they are not equally stunning mosques around the world like Grand Mosque in Afghanistan but not many in this country when you compare them to our churches. But that is only be expected of course.
This exactly, I find a lot of religious buildings extremely fascinating, everything from Stained Glass windows in churches, architecture of cathedrals & mosques. You cannot deny the beauty of their designs. However that is the only thing that interests me with religious buildings, the same could be said for various palaces around the world, extremely beautiful buildings, couldn't be arsed about the people in there.
A lot of churches have had their pews removed and replaced by chairs. And they generally try to provide a warm environment on a Sunday morning at least, if only to stop damp and mildew eroding the soft furnishings.
But for architectural splendour, nothing beats a large Gurdwara. Fine examples in the UK are the Southall and Gravesend Gurdwaras.
.... and yours truly worked on both of them
It would be fear mongering...
If it was not true.
And I said some of them not all of them - or do you not believe that radicalism has not gone on in certain mosques?
Remember Finsbury Park?
I do.
+1 :rolleyes:
I totally agree - the wonderful architecture of some religious building is simply breathtaking.
Man's quest for immortality has led to the creation of some truly magnificent structures throughout the ages - from the oldest religious structure in the world - the astonishing Goblekli Tepe onwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
That is undeniable.
Some of use do care what goes on inside so called religious places of worship, regardless of whether the building looks nice or not.
It also mentions people.
Try harder to not make it so obvious next time.
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Not exactly the words of someone who finds Mosques homely and inviting places. If this character ever actually found himself in a Mosque he'd probably break out in hives and have to call his mummy.
Mosques are basically one big room, the focal point being the mihrab (a niche in the wall!)
Some are richly decorated (with geometric mosaics for example) and some are impressively vast (eg the former Mesquita in Cordoba, Spain) but churches remain more varied and interesting for me.
It's not a good idea to jump to conclusions and make assumptions on behalf of other people that you don't even know.
For instance, I could say you've dropped out of the woodwork, as I hadn't ever seen you post in my travels until today.
Exactly and the use of that tired old insult 'Islamophobe' makes that posters agenda rather obvious. ;-)
I have started many threads on a wide variety of topics - and not one of them has been a 'circle jerk' as you so politely put it.