India Delhi Day 1-- Bahai (Lotus) Temple and our first Sikh temple

Our driver took us to the Bahai (Lotus Template). As you can tell it gets it's name from it's Lotus shape. The Bahai religion has built temples around the world and in each location, tries to pick a theme that is appropriate to the location.

Up close, it bears similarities to the Sydney opera house. It's spectacular inside, but no pictures allowed.




We also visited our first Sikh temple. One of the things that I hadn't been prepared for was that most of the temples and mosques required shoes to be off and in many cases for socks to be off and heads to be covered. You'll see us with some loaner headscarves and we also had to walk through a mystery pool of water to cleanse our feet. I always felt a little nervous and uncomfortable in these situations, first from a general hygiene perspective and secondly worried that someone would run off with our shoes.

One of the common themes of the Sikh temples was community service. Many of the temples had kitchen facilities on the backsides of the building in which they fed any guests or needy several times a day.