Community bonding -at a place of worship

I've thought of this many times earlier and continue to think of this every time I find myself in a place of worship.

Primarily, there is such a feeling of one-ness and bonding between those who congregate at a place of worship at a particular point in time.

Sitting with people who are 'unknown', (yet seem almost like old friends) listening to the same Shabad Kirtans, and hearing the same discourses,eating the same 'Karha Prashad' and then washing one's hands and feet at the Sarovar...it is all so very bonding.

It is also a moment when one realises...yet again...what true belief and faith in a higher power is really all about