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Wat Benchamabophit, also known as The Marble Temple. Bangkok, Thailand.
Please have a look at the whole Thailand Set.
A trek out with my wife to Solomon’s Temple this lunchtime.
Otherwise known as Grinlow Tower this is a Victorian two-storey tower built on top of a Bronze Age barrow just south of Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
The problem with this 365-day challenge is only picking one to post. A had a couple which were probably better than this, but we plan to return and I doubt I’ll get this type of silhouette against a perfectly clear sky again.
This was the best I can do to rescue this shot. Weather was really horrible and my bracketed shots lacked detail in the shadows.
Good thing this was not one of those places that tripods are not allowed. This picture could have been worse if it was done hand held
Virupaksha Temple is the main center of pilgrimage at Hampi, and has been considered the most sacred sanctuary over the centuries.
The temple's history is uninterrupted from about the 7th century. The Virupaksha-Pampa sanctuary existed well before the Vijayanagara capital was located here. Inscriptions referring to Shiva date back to the 9th and 10th centuries.
The huge temple building was built by Lakkana Dandesha, a chieftain under the ruler Deva Raya II of the Vijayanagara Empire.
Haedong Yonggungsa Temple in Busan, South Korea, was founded in 1376 by the great Buddhist teacher Naong.
The Founder's Hall Gate of Higashi Honganji.
The head temple of the Ōtani-ha branch of Jōdo Shinshū.
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Best time to visit here is in the early hours of the morning. Unfortunately for us got a whole lot of stops and undpredicted rain but still worth it, the place, the lake is quite calming.
Golden Temple in Kyoto, one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to.
Shot on Fujifilm GFX 50s with GF 32-64mm lens. This image was developed from a single raw exposure
Here’s the Ninjago City Temple I built for our roguebricks collab at Steinewahn2021. It’s the middle section, which was surrounded by the rest of the city.
Khajuraho - Uno templi erotici del Gruppo Occidentale. (questo è il più casto)
Tra il 950 e il 1150 la dinastia dei Chandela costruì questi templi secondo la tradizione tantrica diffusamnete accettata in quei tempi prima della conquista dei Moghul.
I templi sono decorati con una profusione di sculture che sono considerate tra i più grandi capolavori dell'arte indiana.
I templi di Kahuraho fanno parte dell'UNESCO e sono considerati una delle sette meraviglie dell'India
Khajuraho - An erotic temple of the western group (this is the more chaste one)
Between 950 and 1150, the Chandela monarchs built these temples when the Tantric tradition may have been accepted. In the days before the Mughal conquests.
The Temples are decorated with a profusion of sculptures that are among the greatest masterpieces of Indian art.
The Khajuraho Group of Monuments has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is considered to be one of the "seven wonders" of India.
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Next to the famous Wat Arun Temple in Bangkok the Ordination Hall is located which has a small garden in front of it.
The Shore Temple,situated on the shores of the Bay of Bengal in Mahabalipuram near Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu,India.It was built in the 8th century A.D during the reign of King Narasimhavarman II of the Pallava dynasty.The Pallavas ruled from Kanchipuram and Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram as it is now called was their port city.
It is one of the oldest structural temples of South India built of blocks of granite.It is 60 feet tall and stands on a 50 feet square granite platform.The main deity of this temple is a Shiva lingam.
I took quite a number of shots of this gorgeous temple but I chose this one to share because you can just catch a glimpse of the deep blue waters of the Bay of Bengal to the right of this shot.
March is a busy time for me my friends so do forgive me if I am a bit late with my commenting.:-)