Bohoniki Favorite Tips by evaanna

The little guided tour of the Mosque

Fondest memory: The little guided tour of the Mosque at Bohoniki is a most enjoyable experience. After taking off your shoes, you are told to sit on the carpet in the middle of the floor or in the chairs near the door. Your guide, dressed in a jellabiya worn over her everyday clothes, sits down on the steps of the minbar and the story begins. And it is a story of Islamic religion and beliefs as well as of the local Tatars, their traditions and ways of practising Islam, told in such an interesting way that even children stop fidgeting and listen to her. You'd better listen carefully for your guide has the habit of checking your knowledge at the end of her talk.:)
But the most interesting part of the tour, not only for the children, comes at the end when you are allowed to try on some items of Islamic attire and your lady guide helps you put them on correctly. I had to do with just a 'tarha' - a whitish scarf worn so as to hide the hair. Inevitably, what follows is a photographic session as everybody wants a picture of themselves dressed like this. Before you leave, you can buy some postcards or publications on the subject of Islam. We bought a set of postcards with reproductions of paintings of all the mosques that existed in pre-war Poland and saw the original paintings later at the Regional Museum in Sokólka.