SVETA MJESTA U VELIKIM SVJETSKIM TRADICIJAMA
HOLLY PLACES IN MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS

Summary/Abstract: A phenomenon of visiting holy places, a pilgrimage, is known in all major world religions and cultures. First humans have expressed their religious “tendencies” on the walls of caves and similar places. Eastern religions base their cult of pilgrimage on the connection with the founders of those religious systems. On the other hand, in Judaism and in Islam it is not possible to perform a pilgrimage nowhere outside the holly area as designated by God. A pilgrimage in Judaism is not possible without a temple, while in Islam pilgrimage is not possible outside of Mecca, Arafat, Mina... in the center of which is Kaaba, where Muslims around the world turn to when offering Salat (Prayer). Pilgrimage is the tradition of Ibrahim a.s. (Abraham p.b.u.h.) and one of the five tenets of Islam.

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