When you visit a country, it is curious that one always ends up visiting churches and temples, regardless of whether one is a believer or not. Many times this is to complex for those who want to attend Mass for example Notre Dame in Paris. People pray the Our Father between flashes and shootings of tourists. The thing does not change if we talk about the churches of the colonial Mexican route. And a much smaller scale, even something that we do with our churches of Chiloé, which are visited by hordes of tourists each summer and then be in almost total neglect for the rest of the year.
But what brings us together, in the Caucasus. Moreover, focus on their churches and mosques.
Churches of Armenia and Georgia, are quite similar. Are small churches, often perched on a hill. Postcard usually ideal. Small churches that seem to see from the top towns and villages. While outside, Armenian and Georgian churches are similar, it is inside that makes the difference. In Georgia, for example, are full of icons and religious images. The faithful come and kiss each of the images and symbols inside. In contrast, in Armenia, nothing, not a single figure or image distracts the eye the altar. Azerbaijan
Obviously things are different. They are Muslims. So we changed the small temples perched on the hills by mosques.
I did something super funny. While we visited a mosque, we had they were praying. I was super uncomfortable, they were over a hundred people, all men and looking like we were there too touristy and the Pola covering our hair as we could with handkerchiefs we had.
Was it the lack of custom and ignorance of the behavior that we should have, I dunno. But I remember thinking how curious it was no one would bother to enter the Basilica of San Pedro while there is mass and I would have been so uncomfortable to be in a mosque while praying to Mecca. Cata
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