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I needed manual focus practice, and what better place than at the Narita Buddhist Temple, last time I was here was in 2010, and this time it's not raining and I've got a better camera, and I think* I got some better pictures out of here this time. :D
(*Read: hope)
Temple to Music | Roger Williams Park | Providence, Rhode Island
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Welcome gate of Nocte temple in a village. They keep the skull of sacrificed animal hanged inside and outside the prayer place.
Temple Bar is the the trendy pub district in Dublin. Here we have the colorful Temple Bar with it's outside benches built into the front of the building.
A Hindu temple to Laxmi and Narayan. Photos of the interior are not allowed, but it was just as elaborate as the exterior.
Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nile in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was founded in 1400 BC.
Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or "the southern harem", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Chons and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility, whence its name.
Venue : Temple, Aihole, Karnataka, India.
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The Byodo-In Temple is located at the foot of the Ko'olau Mountains in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park. It was established on June 7, 1968, to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. The temple is built entirely without nails. It is a scale replica of a temple in Uji, Japan, that was constructed over 950 years ago.
The Byodo-In Temple is a non-denominational Buddhist temple which welcomes people of all faiths to worship, meditate or simply appreciate its beauty. The temple grounds are often used for wedding ceremonies for Hawaiians or visitors from Japan.
The Temple grounds are a lushly landscaped paradise nestled in a cleft of the pali and are home to wild peacocks and hundreds of Japanese koi carp. The beautiful grounds include a large reflecting pond, meditation niches, and small waterfalls. Visitors describe this destination as beautiful, peaceful, and restful.
The TV series Hawaii Five-O and Magnum, P.I. featured several episodes where the temple is incorporated into the plot. The temple and its gardens also appeared in an episode of the ABC series Lost, "House of the Rising Sun" in season one as the home of Sun's father.
The Byodo-In Temple is a Hawaii State Landmark.
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(The Kamakhya Temple (Assamese: kāmākhyā mandir); also Kamrup-Kamakhya is a Hindu temple dedicated to the mother goddess Kamakhya. It is one of the oldest of the 51 Shakti Pithas. Situated on the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam, India, it is the main temple in a complex of individual temples dedicated to the ten Mahavidyas: Kali, Tara, Sodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala. Among these, Tripurasundari, Matangi and Kamala reside inside the main temple whereas the other seven reside in individual temples. It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and especially for Tantric worshipers.)
Lepakshi is a small village located in the Anantapur District, in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 15 km east of Hindupur and about 120 km north of Bangalore.
The famous Veerabhadra temple, dedicated to Veerabhadra, is located here
kiyomizu-dera temple in kyoto is lit up at night during the maple leaf season. three visitors contemplate the colors of the leaves before heading down the staircase. kyoto, japan. november 2013
Bristol Temple Meads. Ornate chimneys on the station frontage dating from Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt's expansion of the station between 1865 and 1878. 10th September 2009.
Temple, London. Founded in the C13th and at the boundary of the City of London, Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court. The gatehouse from the Embankment was built in 1878 and designed by E M Barry. It is grade 2 listed, along with the railings and lodge.
City of London, Middle Temple,
May 2016
(The protected upper heights of the Great Hypostyle Hall retains some of the colors which originally covered most of the walls and columns of this temple and most other temples in Egypt.)
The Karnak Temple Complex comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. This is a model of the complex.
The complex is a vast open site and includes the Karnak Open Air Museum. It is believed to be the second most visited historical site in Egypt. Only the Giza pyramid complex near Cairo receives more visits.
"The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used. Construction of temples started in the Middle Kingdom and continued into Ptolemaic times. Approximately thirty pharaohs contributed to the buildings, enabling it to reach a size, complexity, and diversity not seen elsewhere. Few of the individual features of Karnak are unique, but the size and number of features are overwhelming.
One famous aspect of Karnak is the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun-Re, a hall area of 50,000 square feet with 134 massive columns arranged in 16 rows. One hundred and twenty-two of these columns are 33 feet tall, and the other 12 are 69 feet tall with a diameter of 10 feet. The architraves on top of these columns are estimated to weigh 70 tons. These architraves may have been lifted to these heights using levers. This would be an extremely time-consuming process and also would require great balance to get to such great heights. A common alternative theory regarding how they were moved is that large ramps were constructed of sand, mud, brick or stone and that the stones were then towed up the ramps. If stone had been used for the ramps, they would have been able to use much less material. The top of the ramps presumably would have employed either wooden tracks or cobblestones for towing the megaliths.
Ram-headed sphinxes stand guard at the entrance to the temple. Two miles of these also line the two mile distance between this temple and the Temple of Luxor They were buried under the sands for over 1000 years before being excavated.
Chennakesava temple, Belur, 1117 A.D
The main entrance to the complex is crowned by a Rayagopura built during the days of Vijayanagar empire. This is the first great Hoysala temple, though the artistic idiom is Western Chalukyan. The Chennakesava temple has three entrances and the doorways have decorated sculptures called dvarapalaka(doorkeepers) on either side. The original shrine has a star-shaped plan while the additional shrine is a simple square. The icon inside is that of Kesava and was commissioned by Shantala Devi, queen of king Vishnuvardhana.
The building material used in the Chennakesava temple is chloritic schist (soapstone) and is essentially a simple Hoysala plan built with extraordinary detail. What differentiates this temple from other Hoysala temples of the same plan is the unusually large size of the temple. The temple is a ekakuta vimana design (single shrine) of 10.5 m by 10.5 m size. A large vestibule connects the shrine to the mandapa (hall) which is one of the main attractions of the temple. The mandapa has 60 bays. The superstructure (tower) on top of the vimana has been lost over time. The temple is built on a jagati (platform). There is one flight of steps leading to the jagati and another flight of steps to the mantapa. The jagati provides the devotee the opportunity to do a pradakshina (circumambulation) around the temple before entering it. The jagati follows the staggered square design of the mantap and the star shape of the shrine. The mantapa here was originally open. A visitor would have been able to see the ornate pillars of the open mantapa from the platform. The mantapa is perhaps the most magnificent one in all of medieval India. The open mantapa was converted into a closed one after about 50 years, during the Hoysala rule. This was done by erecting walls with pierced window screens. The window screens are on top of 2 m high walls. There are 28 such windows, with star-shaped perforations and bands of foliage, figures and mythological subjects.
Hindu temple located in Central Java Special Region of Yogyakarta Indonesia. This historical Hindu Temple is dated back from the 9th century. It seems Mt. Merapi tried her best to show her beauty right behind the temple
Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is a temple located on the shores of Lake Beratan, Bedugul, Bali. This temple is one of the most famous places of worship in Bali, dedicated to Dewi Danu, the goddess of water, lakes, and fertility in Balinese Hinduism. Ulun Danu Temple has a very stunning beauty, with a backdrop of green mountains and a calm lake. The structure of the temple built on the lake gives the impression of floating, creating a very beautiful view, especially when the morning mist covers the area. In addition to being a place of worship, Ulun Danu Temple is also a major tourist attraction in Bali, combining elements of spirituality, nature, and culture that are very distinctive.
Chennakesava temple, Belur, 1117 A.D
The main entrance to the complex is crowned by a Rayagopura built during the days of Vijayanagar empire. This is the first great Hoysala temple, though the artistic idiom is Western Chalukyan. The Chennakesava temple has three entrances and the doorways have decorated sculptures called dvarapalaka(doorkeepers) on either side. The original shrine has a star-shaped plan while the additional shrine is a simple square. The icon inside is that of Kesava and was commissioned by Shantala Devi, queen of king Vishnuvardhana.
The building material used in the Chennakesava temple is chloritic schist (soapstone) and is essentially a simple Hoysala plan built with extraordinary detail. What differentiates this temple from other Hoysala temples of the same plan is the unusually large size of the temple. The temple is a ekakuta vimana design (single shrine) of 10.5 m by 10.5 m size. A large vestibule connects the shrine to the mandapa (hall) which is one of the main attractions of the temple. The mandapa has 60 bays. The superstructure (tower) on top of the vimana has been lost over time. The temple is built on a jagati (platform). There is one flight of steps leading to the jagati and another flight of steps to the mantapa. The jagati provides the devotee the opportunity to do a pradakshina (circumambulation) around the temple before entering it. The jagati follows the staggered square design of the mantap and the star shape of the shrine. The mantapa here was originally open. A visitor would have been able to see the ornate pillars of the open mantapa from the platform. The mantapa is perhaps the most magnificent one in all of medieval India. The open mantapa was converted into a closed one after about 50 years, during the Hoysala rule. This was done by erecting walls with pierced window screens. The window screens are on top of 2 m high walls. There are 28 such windows, with star-shaped perforations and bands of foliage, figures and mythological subjects.
Black Dick's Temple
The Beaumonts arrived in Britain with WIlliam the Conquerer and were awarded lands in Huddersfield in the early part of the 13th century. Whitley Hall was built by Richard Beaumont in the early 17th century, although there was probably a house on the site as early as the late 14th century. It was remodelled in 1704 and the grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The Beaumont family continued the occupy the hall until 1917. An attempt at restoration was made by Charles Sutcliff who bought the hall in 1924 but it was sold once again in 1950, this time to an open cast mining company and the hall was demolished.
Black Dick's Temple is now the only structure that remains of the estate. It stands on a ridge of high ground, just off Liley Lane between Grange Moor and Kirkheaton. It is named after Sir Richard Beaumont (1574-1631), who was named 'Black Dick of the North' by James I. Quite how he got his nickname is not clear, although he is reputed to have been involved in a number of nefarious activities, such as being a highwayman, a gambler, a bad debtor and was supposedly killed in a duel. He is also said to have murdered a young serving girl who he had made pregnant. It is also said that he practiced black magic at the tower, although this is highly unlikely.
However, he was knighted by James I, helped to found Kirkheaton Grammar School, was the MP for Pontefract and was made a Baronet in 1628. His restless (and headless) ghost is said to haunt the tower on 5th July every year. Although how he has come to be associated with the tower is a bit of a mystery, as it was built (most likely as a summer house) in 1752, over a century after he had died. A bit of historical confusion may lie behind the story of his ghost, as it was Robert de Beaumont who lost his head during the Elland Fued c.1340, when the John de Eland attacked him in his home at Crosland Hall in Crosland Moor.
It has also been supposed that the Temple was built as a mausoleum and that a tunnel leads to Kirkheaton. Black Dick himself lies under a wonderfully elaborate tomb, in the Beaumont Chapel of Kirkheaton Church.