I enjoyed attending Church and Mosque in Muscat over the weekend. The Church service on Friday ( the weekly rest day in Oman) was
at the church of St Thomas in Ruwi – the church serves the Syrian (Syriac) Christians of southern Indian; the priests in vestments reminiscent of high church Anglican attire (or is it the other way around?). I must say that since the service was in Malayalam (Kerala’s language) I didn’t understand a word but found the atmosphere made up for that.
Perhaps quite naturally, today the small coffee shop I go to near my flat for snacks only had Iddely & Sambar to eat, both classic dishes from Kerala. Iddely which is a rice based patty I could manage but left behind much of the ferociously hot Sambar.
On Thursday I was delighted to witness a friend’s marriage solemnisation in a village mosque near my home. As is usual in such matters in Oman, most, possibly all, of the village males attended the service, along with others like myself who knew the families. Though simple in its form, it was, as a result, quite an intense, and yes, solemn experience.
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