Other worshipping communities

Just a short note to say that we accidentally stumbled across a mosque in Amsterdam in our walking around.  There were quite a few women with hijabs in Paris, which is not surprising considering 10% of the French population is Muslim.  There were not as many in Amsterdam, but they were still around.  We've seen very few in Copenhagen, although our navigations have been limited to a small part of the city.

We did walk past a Jewish synagogue yesterday and our guide at Rosenborg noted that Christian IV was responsible for allowing/bringing more Jews into the country in the 1700s (this was said as  point of pride), although it was done for the practical reason that as a christian he was not supposed to borrow money from other christians, but he could do so from non-christians (ie Jews that were wealthy).  Not quite sure what biblical reference this was, but that was the perspective at the time.  I have seen very few hijabs in Copenhagen.  In fact, I was quite irritated by a guard in one of the royal museums who seemed to think some of our group was not behavioring respectfully enough and came to report it to me as their leader.  His description included the girl with the scarf (made as a gesture of a head cover).  I suppose that is a physical distinction, but it smacked of a personal bias as well.