Religion
Two synagogues remain in the Market from the early 20th-century period when the area was the centre of the Jewish community in Toronto, Anshei Minsk on St. Andrews Street and the Kiever Synagogue on Bellevue Avenue.
The winter solstice festival is an important gathering of Ontario's pagan community.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)