Religion In Second Life- Jessi2009 Warrol Reporting…

If you are in tune with your religious and spiritual side, Second Life offers many locations and groups for the religious and spiritual minded individual.

Religious & spiritual locations can be divided up into three categories. The first category is replicas of famous landmarks. This category includes replicas of such famous religious landmarks as The Cathedral of Notre Dame. The second category are sims which have actual in world religious and spiritual services that you can attend. The last category are places of meditation, where you can sit and reflect in your surroundings.  So how do you find these places? An easy way is the Second Life Destinations Guide, which has a Spirituality & Belief category.

I decided to look for a category 1 religious and spiritual destination and combed the list and found the Basilica of St. Peter the Apostle. The basilica was decorated with wedding decorations and included many benches for one to sit and reflect. The location is available for weddings and featured a realistic pipe organ above the door.

If you are interested in attending religious and spiritual church services, then try the House of Prayer Church. This church offers regular church and prayer services and even has gender specific groups and meetings.  The church offers prayer requests and has a staff of many to help you with your religious and spiritual needs.

If you are looking for a place to meditate and just reflect spiritually then try the Tower of Mediation. The Tower of Mediation is almost 300 meters in the sky and offers a place for you to sit and mediate in Second Life. The view was quite far and pleasant to look at.

Of course Second Life offers locations for many other religions. The Spirituality & Belief category also had locations for Buddhism, Seventh-Day Adventist, Hinduism, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Islam, and Mormons. If you are interested in networking and teleporting to various spiritual and intellectual places in Second Life, then schedule a visit to the SpiritGate Metaverse sim is a treat. The sim has teleport stations for people network and visit other spiritual, psychology, arts, and various other destinations in Second Life.

The Second Life destinations directory is not the only means of finding religious and spiritual locations; you can do a search in groups for various individual religions and for other locations that may not be listed in the destinations directory.

 A quick search for synagogues listed two places and I easily found the SLS-Synagogue.