The Mosque | Religious Studies - My Life, My Religion: Islam

Suitable for teaching 7-11s. Twelve-year-old Kaisan visits the East London Mosque (“masjid” in Arabic) with his dad. It’s a place to pray, study, and learn how to be a good human being and Muslim from the iman (holy man). This clip is from a series exploring young people and faith.

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Twelve-year-old Kaisan visits the East London Mosque (“masjid” in Arabic) with his dad. It’s a place to pray, study, and learn how to be a good human being from the iman (holy man). It is considered disrespectful to make pictures of God or the prophets in Islam, so mosques are decorated with patterns, calligraphy and stained glass. Men and women have separate prayer halls, and they pray towards a niche in the wall that faces in the direction of Mecca.

This clip is from My Life, My Religion: Islam, a series in which young people explore what it means to be Muslim.

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Teaching Religious Studies?

Find from the web some examples of mosques near to your school (‘near’ may mean 50 miles away in rural Yorkshire or in Cornwall for example, but this still makes the study more local). Use web images and mosque sites to examine with the class what is similar and what is different between the large purpose-built East London Mosque in the clip and other local examples. Most purpose-built mosques have a dome and a minaret, but all mosques have somewhere to wash, a Qibla wall to show the direction of Mecca, and space to bow and pray. Pupils could use the similarities and differences exercise to compare a mosque to another place of worship – church, temple, Gurdwara or synagogue for example.

This topic is relevant to KS2 Religious Education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Religious Studies in Scotland.

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