A walk through history

Today was an amazing experience. We started our day of with the heritage walk trough the old city in Ahmedabad. Our first stop was A Hindu temple build in the 1800s. The walls of the building were filled with figures and carvings of people and gods. Being a polytheistic religion there were indeed many gods depicted on them. I actually got in trouble in this temple because I did not realize that it was divided by gender and I walked in lady’s section. While funny this made me realize just how much there still is a patriarchy here In India.

This wasn’t the only holy place we visited. We also saw a Jain temple, Hindu temple, and a Mask. There we learned more about pols (small knit communities) and history of religion.

Today we also learned about the influence of all the rulers of the past and how they affected the architecture and culture. Because of the many different ones, there were many many different styles of of buildings very close together.

Because of this walk, I learned that even though everyone has differences we can still respect and coexistence in love and peace with one another just as they do here.