Do Muslims visit churches to admire the history and artwork?

[F.Y.]

If you read the whole thread, you will find that north_malaysian was surprised that our congregation meets in a school hall, rather than a 'proper' church ... and understood that to mean that the church (building) is not important (which, on the whole, I would agree with)

There are many Muslim communities that use school halls as places of worship too, if there are not many muslims and they need a place to congregate but they dont quite have the finances to build a mosque. I completely agree, if you dont have a proper mosque/church, its not the end of the world. As long as the place is clean and you can worship without disturbance.

 

[Curaezipirid]

Alaikumassalam,

Most Religions have an enormous amount of respect for any place in which any Holy event has taken place. It is the case among many Indigenous people that the events that are recorded as having taken place that were of a miraculous nature and so instilled Faith in Allah, most often took place in an outside environment. But truly it is by our worship of Allah in any place that it is provided with any sacred manfestation, and not that gargoyles are carved.

However I took this thread to be an association with the nature of the work of a Mason. Whom reading this thread regards that the history of European Church building has a significant place in respect of the belief of Freemasons? Have these buildings enabled Freemasons to sustain Faith in One God? Or is it that such tradition is best manifested as sustained through traditions such as visiting Ka'ba, and the older use of New Grange in Ireland.

But that reminds me. I learned about the initiations that used to take place at New Grange, which is 5000 yrs old, and then later I had a Dream that the same are manifest within a similar stone building somewhere in the Middle East. Could anybody clarify if this is the case?

Wasalam