Museum of World Religions (in Yonghe City, Taipei County, Taiwan)
Today I went to an awesome museum about religions! Here are some pictures I took! First you get to walk by a wall of falling water and learn how water is important in different religions. And then down this hallway you get to make a "pilgrimmage" and see different questions illuminated on the walls. "Who created me?" for instance. The next section is the Golden Lobby. The Golden Lobby is meant to look like a human eye and the point is to help the visitors to open their eyes and hearts to see the beauty in religion. Blurry... :'( On the floor are different symbols for religions and zodiacs. First stop is Christianity... Next, Judaism... Ancient Egypt... This was an offering table... Sounds sinister! Islam... Buddhism... Zarathushtra (sp)... Daoism... Shinto... Maya... Sikhism... Hinduism... Next is an exhibit on how the Taiwanese practice r...