The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-17
Frank G. Carpenter anu High Prize ut
MT Jnmma MusjId.

Frank G.. Carpenter anu High Prize ut
MT Jnmma Musjld.
his knees with sufficient space in
front for him to bow his head to the
stone. All point toward Mecca, and as
walked through tho building saw
many praying. In the alcoves wor-
shippers were reading their Kornns, and
OIL at one side a crowd of women
shrouded in white wells was sitting.
AS we walked through the high priest
pointed out the beauties OF the mosque
translating the texts OF the Koran In
laid here and there. He took me TO
the pulpit, which Is cut out OF sim
gle block of solid marble. and as a
special favor showed me the greatest
treasure possessed by tho church. This
| Is kept in vault of stone with nu-
merous doors, which are guarded by
two gray-bearded followers OF tho pro-
lphet. AT the direction OF the high
priest these doors were opened. My
curiosity rose as key after key was
used, and when at last I was shown
a casket covered with glass 1 expect
ed a great diamond or some collection
! Of rubies and pearls / looked In and
saw nothing until his holiness pointed
to O single rough. red, wtry hair in the
centre The hair was about two inches
Hong and so fastened by glue to the
casket that 1t stood straight up.
| was told that II was real hair from
| the mustache of Mohammed, and that
| made the mosque especially holy.
| The barber stole these hairs one day
while shaving Mohammed. and carried
them about with him for the rest OF
his life. One he kept under his tongue,
another over his heart. and the third
glued to his right arm Upon his
death they were planted ana the
m
Pagoda of Rangoon, the most famous
Buddhist monument of the world, is
4 erected over seven or eight hairs OF
Buddha. and down in Ceylon there is a
wonderful temple which contains Budd-
has favorite tooth.
II The Pearl Mosques.
1 Another beautiful mosque here Is
known as the Mott Musjid, or Pearl
Mosque. 1t was built about two hun
I dred and fifty years ago by Arungzeb.
one of the Mohammedan emperors, and
1t Is the sister to the Pearl Mosque at
4 Agra, built by Shah Jchan. Both of
these structures are of white marble
exquisitely carved and inlaid. That az
Il Agra is perhaps the most beautiful re-
ligious building of the whole world.
/ Bayard Taylor staid that 1t seemed to
him so pure and stainless and SO abso-
lutely perfect in revealing the spirit
of worship that he felt BUNDLED to
think that the Christian religion had
never inspired It's architects to sur
pass it. This temple to God and Mo-
4 manned is OF the purest white marble.
with three great silvery domes rising
above 1t. The court Is of marble
squares, and inside are prayer spaces
like those of the Jamma Musjid. There
e is q great marble tank in the centre
of the court. and upon the walls are
inscriptions inlaid in black, which COM
pare the building to pearl and de-
scribe it's builder as the king of kings
and the shadow of God.
MOhammednn Sects.
1 find the Mohammedans here some-
4 what different from thise of Egypt,
Turkey and Arabia. The religion has
changed greatly according to the coun-
q tries where 1t has been believed. Moros
are among the most ignorant follow
ers of the faith, and the same is true
of certain districts of this country
Y where the people have mixed the prin-
a eiples of the Koran with those Of
. Hindooisn. In some villages the fol-
J lowers of the prophet believe in
witches. They employ the Hindoo as
biologists to fix lucky days for their
marriages and also pray to the Hindoo
4 gods to give them sons. There are
some scots which have castles, and
1 in the Junjab there is one led by a
man who claims to be the Messiah of
i the Mohammedans He breaches
against modern education and says
4 that the day of resurrection Is at hand
. In general there are about as many
! sects among the Mohammedans as the
Christians. Mohammed told his fol-
flowers that after he died the religion
| Iwould be divided and seventy-three
ifsects would arise. There are more
than this In the Mohammedan world
| In india the four principal schools are
the Sunnites the Shiabs, the Wahabis
and the new progressive school, Which
| lis in favor OF education and almost
everything modern 1T Is from this last
school that the chief unrest comes
I The college at Aligarh represents IT
J and among It's members are those who
belong to the various Moslem leagues
| and Moslem agitators
The Sunnltes and Shiahs have Ions
] been the most prominent sects through
out the Mohammedan world. Inc
:" Sunnites acknowledged the first tour
caliphs to have been the riEhtful suc'
cessors Of Aohammed, where as the
I Shiahs claim that All, the cousin and
son-in-law of the prophet, should have
succeeded him. There are something
like l45,000,0O Sunnites In the world
cod only $4,000, 900 Shiahs,
AS to the Wahabis, they arc the
unitarlans of Mohamm edanisn They
claim TO have the purest religion and
20 round their faith not upon saints
but solely upon the Koran and Moham'
meo. Ihey do not worship the tomb
Of Mohammed, and when they captured
Medina about century ago they de-
rs stroyed the relics and stripped off the
ornaments of that sacred spot
J. There Is another sect here known az
the Craer or Assassins. which is also
AIouno III ArabbC and Persia It was