Religious Sounds

Scattered throughout the city are temples for worship. They all seem to have the same architectural form in as much as they possess an outer gate (where the admission fee is collected), a pathway with stalls selling religious artefacts leading to an inner courtyard, and then the main temple for group worship with smaller grottos for more individual reflections.

In this inner area the sounds from the city are masked by the architecture, and so the area provides a solace from the bustle of the outside world; however, religion has its own sounds....

Here, the main sonic feature is the bell, and in the larger temples these range in size depending on their religious function (and with an appropriate price attached). If this instrument was chosen originally for its sustaining quality then this seems to have been lost through repetition. Today, as the temple goers have the bell struck they quickly move on rather than wait for the sound to completely die away.