I already talked some about the Golden Temple, but I feel the need to make a few more observations. It is the most alive place of worship I have ever seen. I have been to many cathedrals in Europe, and a mosque or two, and when services aren’t going on, they are just impressive architecture. Service is going on 24 hours a day at the temple. It is also much more of a communal place. At any given time, hundreds of lay people are working to cook food, serve food, wash dishes, clean the sidewalks…their actions being worship. It is quite unlike the one-way, top-down approach of services in other large churches.