Pilgrimage

To know what pilgrimage is and why it is important to religious believers.

Starter

•Think of a special place which is important to you.

•You must have a reason why it is important.

A Rough Guide to Pilgrimages:

•http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-rough-guide-to-miracles-and-pilgrimages/2879.html

•All will know what pilgrimage is.•Most will be able to understand why

pilgrimage is significant to religious believer.

•Some will be able to reflect on some of the benefits gained from going on pilgrimage.

Success criterias

‘PILGRIM’ from the Latin word peregrinus (per = ‘through’, ager = ‘field, country, land’)

A journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion

A journey to a shrine or other sacred place

Here is the dictionary deffintion of pilgrimage

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Here are some places which are special to some people…

River Ganges in Varanasi, India.

Bodh Gaya

Ka’aba, Holy City of Mecca

Golden Temple, Amritsar

The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

Western Wall, Jerusalem

The Holy Land, Jerusalem.

For this topic everyone is going to have a pilgrimage passport where

you can record which different places of pilgrimage we have

looked at

1. You need to fill in the details page of your passport

2. Your homework is to make an interesting cover for your passport.

3. Each lesson you need to design a ‘visa stamp’ for each of the places

you have looked at.

Each stamp should show something about the place.

What is a Pilgrimage ?

•Pilgrimage is a journey of spiritual significance.

•Often, a pilgrimage involves visiting a significant place which reflects spiritual and religious beliefs.

Places of Pilgrimage often become “special” because of something that happened there.

Have you somewhere that is special to you – perhaps because of happy memories, or because it is peaceful and

beautiful?

Extension Task – 5 W’s Factfile

•Select one of the places of pilgrimage.•Create a fact file, including: where, what,

when, why and who.

Recap

•All will know what pilgrimage is.•Most will be able to understand why

pilgrimage is significant to religious believer.

•Some will be able to reflect on some of the benefits gained from going on pilgrimage.