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On Emirates flights the location of Mecca is shown on the common TV screens at the appropriate time. They restrain from the Muezzin's call to prayer over a crackly tannoy. I'm not sure how they set the prayer times though considering that while flying you are constantly crossing time zones.

Labels: airlines, emirates, religion

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In my hotel room there is a black arrow on the ceiling pointing in the direction to Mecca, a common site in Islamic countries.

Labels: dubai, mecca, religion, uae

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I have travelled around Asia enough to be used to seeing Swastika's everywhere. It has been used by Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism long before 1933.

The tilt of this swastika and colour scheme though is more Nazi than Eastern Religious.

Labels: india, religion, swastika

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International companies accommodating for local tastes and traditions. In this case the fasting month of Ramadan. Colonel Sanders probably never even heard of Ramadan.

Labels: food, kuala-lumpur, malaysia, religion

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Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) houses what is said to be the remains of the Magi (the three wise men).



The Shrine of the Three Kings makes Colognes Cathedral one of great pilgrimage churches of Europe.

Labels: cathedral, cologne, germany, religion

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