Year Eight
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Year Eight
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The Year Eight course has two units. We spend two terms looking at Places of Worship. This involves looking at the atmosphere and importance of places such as churches and mosques, as well as the things that you find in them. We spend a term looking at Holy Books, discovering the contents and teachings of the books, and also how the teachings are put in to practice. Test your knowledge in the on-line quiz, or use these quick links to go straight to the topic that you are working on. |
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Pictures of Churches For over forty pictures of churches, try this site first! Christian Symbols Click here to visit a site with an amazing catalogue of symbols and signs used in Christianity. This site will be especially useful if you are researching for a project on Churches. Places of Worship Gallery Nelson Thorne, the Publishers, have this gallery of images of Pleaces of Worship, mainly in the UK. Use these pictures if you are researching a project on one of the Places of Worship you are studying. Durham Cathedral Durham is one of the most spectacular buildings in the World (though I might be biased!). It has been made a World Heritage Site, This website is run by the Cathedral staff. Click here to see the University's tour of the Cathedral. Thorpe St Andrew Church This is the Church that is down by River Green on Yarmouth Road. It once had a spire, but lost it to a landmine during WWII. This is the only site on the 'net that I can find with anything on Thorpe Church. The site doesn't contain much information about the Church, or about its sister church, the Good Shepherd on Thunder Lane. However, there are some pictures of the Church Buildings, and information about the Organ Restoration Fund. Norwich Cathedral Norwich Cathedral dominates the city - its spire is 315 feet high! The building was begun around 900 years ago, and has been at the centre of Anglican Christian life ever since. Click here to find out about the worship that takes place every day in the Cathedral, and to find out about the music and the choirs that you will hear if you visit the Cathedral. Click here to go to the Education Department's pages, which are designed to help students with their work. St John's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich The Roman catholic Cathedral is the large Church on the hill overlooking the west of the City. It is on Unthank Road, near Toys-R-Us and Grapes Hill. The Roman Catholic Cathedral serves a huge area covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Canterbury Cathedral The Church of England's centre, its Mother Church, is at Canterbury. Click here for a virtual reality tour! Buckfast Abbey In Year Eight, we study Places of Worship. This is a link to the famous Monastery's Website. Ripon Cathedral The Places of Worship unit includes a study of the importance of Cathedrals. This link takes you to one of the great Cathedrals of Yorkshire. The BBC's Cathedral Tour The BBC History site includes this section about Britain's Cathedrals. Go on an amazing flying tour of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and find out about the medieval and modern engineers who built the great churches. Pilgrim's Progress Follow this link to an introduction to Pilgrimage in Christianity. The site takes its title from a book by John Bunyan. The Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. Norfolk's (and Britain's) most popular Pilgrimage site. This site will be useful whether you are working on the Year 8 Pilgrimage Unit, or completing your GCSE Coursework in Year 11.Click here to find out about a Parish Church's pilgrimage to Walsingham. The History of Walsingham This link takes you to the excellent History site "Spartacus.net". Follow it to research the story of the Medieval Shrine at Walsingham. Taize Taize was founded in 1940 by a Swiss Christian called Brother Roger. Today it is popular with young Christians, with thousands of people under the age of 30 visiting Taize every year. Lourdes Click here to find out about the famous Shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes in France. The Mandir This is a link to a Canadian Mandir (Hindu Temple) Web-site. Swaminarayan Temple, Neasden This is the homepage of the amazing Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, near Wembley Stadium. There are not many pictures, but you can research the importance of the Mandir to its community. There is an interesting "News" Section which gives you an insight into the life of the Mandir, and a link to the Swaminarayan movement's world wide homepage. Regents Park Mosque Visit Britain's most famous mosque on-line. You can see the dome of the mosque shimmering on the London Skyline near London Zoo - the amazing building has become the focal point for Muslims throughout the UK The Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. This takes you to a site that is devoted to "The Journey of a Lifetime".Click here to go to another site with information about the Hajj. The Hajj Follow this link to an excellent report from the BBC about the Hajj 2001. Isfahan Designated as a world heritage site by UNESCO, the city of Isfahan is famous for its mosques, some as much as 900 years old. Visit this site for over 40 pictures of mosques, and an introduction to the city. The Gurdwara Click here to research the Sikh Place of Worship. To see amazing pictures of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, including panoramic views and video that you can download, click here. Visit a Gurdwara Our nearest Gurdwara is in Ipswich! You can visit Ramgarhia Gurdwara in Bradford from this site, and go on a VR tour - it's run by the Bradford Interfaith Centre. Amritsar This page on the BBC News website describes a reporter's visit to the famous "Golden Temple of Amritsar". Thanks to Mr Uthman for finding this one! The Kumbh Mela The Kumbh Mela took place in January in Northern India. It attracted up to 70 million people - so many that astronauts in space could see the crowd! - to the banks of the Ganges river. The official site will give you background information and images. There is also this site which also has plenty of information and pictures of the Kumbh. Channel 4's website accompanies its television programmes - there were daily live reports from the Kumbh, with interviews and features. This site is run by a Professor of Religious Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. Holy Books Remember that for most religions, the scriptures are not translated - for example, Muslims learn arabic in order to read the Koran in its original language. Guru Granth Sahib This takes you to a translation of the Sikh Holy Book. The Bhagavad Gita Click here to see the text of the Hindu sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita. The Bible Can't find a Bible? Click here to visit an e-bible! Make sure you know the quotation that you are looking for before you start - you can easily get lost! |