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The Holy Land became a place of religious significance because of traditional beliefs and passages in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures (Bible and Qur'an). The Bible says that God promised the Holy Land to Abraham as a homeland for his descendants, God's "chosen" people. Within the Holy Land, places such as Jerusalem have particular significance because of events that occurred there. Holy sites such as the ancient Temple of Solomon were there; so is the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus' body was placed after the Crucifixion and from which he is said to have emerged in the Resurrection. The first and second Jewish Temples were built on a sacred bedrock that is also holy to Muslims. The Temple was considered God's home on earth. In that same spot, by tradition, Jacob laid his head on a rock and struggled with the Angel of God, as told in the Book of Genesis. The Ark of the Covenant containing the actual stone tablets that Moses received on Mount Sinai are believed to be under the Temple Mount. The holiness of Mount Sinai, another place in the Holy Land, is mentioned in the Qur'an.
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A travel is religious places?
Travelling to a religious place (a place holy to your religious beliefs) is to go on a pilgrimage.
Which term refers to a religious journey?
A journey to a place of religious or spiritual significance is usually called a pilgrimage.
What is a holy place or place of worship?
A holy place is place that a religious group believes has sacred value.A place of worship is a building or outdoor environment which a religious group believes is proper for prayer to a deity, a spirit, or numerous deities and/or spirits.
What is the religious significance of a mandala?
A mandala is a sphere that Buddists use to make a sacred area to place the deity or perform rituals. It is made by placing sacred sand in a circle shape and blessing it as a holy area.
Someone who travels to a holy place for religious reasons?
Is on a pilgrimage.
Which religious leader visited many holy places?
Most religious leaders would have. Many of those who later became religious leaders would also have various places they visited later become holy places.
What city was built by the Inca's out of stone believed to be a religious and holy place?
Macchu Picchu
Who commanded Muhammad to recite the words that would later become the religious holy book?
jibrail a s
What is pligrimage?
A pilgrim is a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
What does the old English word hallow mean?
To render holy by means of religious rites. (bless consecrate sanctify)
What is the significance of mount Zion to the Christian church?
Mount Zion typically is used to refer to the area around the city of Jerusalem. So basically it is a holy place in the Holy Land.
Is a journey to a holy place to fulfill a religious duty and obtain some spiritualand physical benefits?
pilogrimage
