Touch
As mentioned in the sound subsection is the common practice for people to bow their head three times while kneeling. This practice is often done on the carpet as seen in the image to the left. Furthermore, people are required to take off their shoes before entering this room so that they do not bring in any dirt onto the sacred space and dirty the carpet. Users are then enaging the carpet through their feet, knees, hands, and often forehead when they bow. This carpet is regularly vacuumed to maintain cleanliness and sacredness of the space. The importance of the carpet to the temple is what Dickinson and Aiello would describe as "focus on agentic materiality [which] directs attention to the ways in which material things (the paper of the candy wrapper or the steel of the tower) co-produce the culture of which they are a part" of (Dickinson and Aiello 1297). The feeling of carpet is a way for the audience to have a tangible experience because it leaves an imprint within their memory due to their repeated visits to the temple. This carpet co-produces the temple culture because it invites the audience to have an intimate moment, removing their shoes to enter indoors like they would at home, of vulnerability to honor their loved ones in front of others.