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Show One of the Holiest Places; Four Religions Claim Spot 'Adam's Peak, in Ceylon, is one of the world's holiest places, because it's sacred in four religions. A peculiar mark, like a giant foot-m-int on a rock at the summit of the mountain is believed by Buddhists to have been made by Buddha. Hindus say Siva was responsible for it, and Mohammedans that it indicates the spot where Adam stood to do penance when he was expelled from Eden. Fourth claim Is put forward by Nes-torian Nes-torian Christians that the rock was the resting-place of St. Thomas the Doubter. Pilgrims of all four religions come to the rock from every part of the East London Answers. |