Did the school have to get your parents’ permission for the visits? I only ask because my parents would have had a fit if my school had had me and my siblings visit the places of worship of religions other than our own without their express permission, which in most cases, especially a non-Christian religion, they wouldn’t have given. We could of course learn about “world religions” in an academic, removed way.
My parents would have really pitched a fit if any teacher had tried to force us to bow the knee to Allah or any god other than the God of the Christian Bible. But no school in my day would have ever tried to do such a thing. Which tells you how long since I’ve been in school :)
Not so much permission, as in signing a slip, but our parents knew we were going on a field trip, where we were going, the times etc. It was only one ‘field trip’ a year if memory serves.
The three Christian churches were all in close proximity to the school anyway, it was actually hardly a field trip. And we walked 10 mins to the Sikh ‘temple’, again hardly a real field trip.
And no we didnt pray or anything like that. We might have been shown ways of praying and copied them as the man showed us. Mostly we stood or sat and listened.