Visit to Ilford Mosque

On Thursday 23rd June Class 5R visited the Islamic Centre. We took the 150 bus to Ilford Exchange and then walked up Balfour Road until we arrived at the Mosque. Before we went into the mosque we all had to remove our shoes. As we entered the Deputy Imam introduced himself and also introduced his two collegues as well. He showed us where they go to wash before they pray. This operation is called 'wazu'.The Deputy Imam told us the different times of day that they have to pray this is all based on the sun. Then he showed us upstairs where they teach their students in classrooms. We went back downstairs and he performed a prayer from the 'Holy Quaran' which is their holy book. His collegues performed another prayer called 'fazar'.
When the day was over we put our shoes on and walked back to the bus-stop to get the bus back to school.