Saturday, June 16, 2012

Bonus Blog: Feel Islam in Tokyo

Hi I'm Noriko. I'm going to talk about one of my favorite place in Tokyo. It is the biggest mosque in Japan named Tokyo Camii placed in Yoyogi Uehara. The number of believers who come every day is  5~10 except Friday. 350-400 believers come on Friday, when the main pray is held.It is also popular places to visit, so non Muslim can enter it with ease. The number of visitors per year is 13000.

Visitors can enter a place of worship, where is amazing beautiful!! You can see it here. The patterns on the wall are Arabic calligraphy. Each one has meaning from Quran, which is the bible of Islam. Moreover, we are allowed to see believers praying inside it!! When I went there, I could hear a man singing for pray. That was also very beautiful. Women must put on a skarf inside a worship place, but it isn't annoying. As for me, wearing skarf let my emotion calm down.

Tokyo Camii is advancing to spread people's understanding for Islam, so it gives some materials about Islam for free. If you want to get something about it more, you can get it in a shop in Tokyo Camii.

If you're interested in religion, architecture or arts, it worth visiting once. This is the official page of Tokyo Camii.

I got them for free.


It's a very beautiful Islamic song.  I can't stop listening to it. I recommend to listen to it at night especially you're mind is calm. It made me think about people's religious backgrounds because I'll never be able to have absolute faith in God like Muslim. Anyway, you don't have to listen to it with seriousness. If you're not familiar with Islamic music, it's interesting :)

5 comments:

  1. Hi im kotaro. I think No.4 is my number lol
    I interested in rerigions because I have no rerigion. After I read your post I got interested in Islam more than I used to! By the way i love that kind of music

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    1. I'm Noriko.
      I may have mistaken to take my topic. I should have taken news topic. So this is a mistaken blog. But thank you for your comment.

      Anyway, Kotaro, your blog number is actually #3. Did you check a sheet of print? Blog#3 is for group#3 & #4! Your group number is #3 or #4, isn't it? So your blog is #3.

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  2. Hi I'm Shiori. I love Islamic art too! Mosque, arabesque, letter of Arabic, song and so on. They are so beautiful.

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  3. Hi I'm Yuki. I went to there!! My father took me to there about a month ago. Yeah,I agree with you!! It was super beautiful!! I was sooo impressed. Also,I have a book. It is blue one in your picture.I'm interested in religion,too. Especially,"Jewish". Some of my friends are "Jewish" and I red article in magazine. They are so smart people.

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  4. Hi Noriko,
    I had no idea. I would really like to go there. The song is great. Interesting that it is in English. I expected it to be in Arabic or in a language of Muslims. But I think that being Muslim requires people to live a very strict life. Many Muslim women are trying to free themselves from the limits of their religin. Thanks for sharing.
    Ms. MacGregor

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