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Dhanteras and Diwali, celebrated as the Festival of Lights, is a time when we invite Maha-Lakshmi to come into our hearts and homes.
We pray to Her to help cleanse our minds of judgement and to show us the way to surrender to the Feet of the Master.
We celebrated with special pujas, bhajans, and satsangs each night! Check out the album to see more highlights from the celebrations!
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A Hindu temple to Laxmi and Narayan. Photos of the interior are not allowed, but it was just as elaborate as the exterior.
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My first attempt at a HDR. Shot at a deserted temple near the Genji Fort. The temple is maintained by ASI and in great condition. Beast thing about the temple is that there are no devotees!! so ur free to click all day long without any disturbance.
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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Cristmas on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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.)
Trajan's Kiosk - Philae Temple. Aswan, Egypt 07/02/2009.
Original on the island of Philae this temple complex was moved to its current location on the island of Agilkai when the Aswan dam was built. The removal and reconstruction took place under the auspices of UNESCO and lasted from 1970 to 1982.
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.
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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.
An ariel view of the small town of Tirukazhukkundram - "The divine Hill of the Eagle " - near Chennai taken from the Eagle's Hill. The coconut trees provide a good yardstick to measure the tower heights.
The flat green fields are paddy fields. View LARGE
The Omkareshwara Temple in Madikeri is the only temple I've seen built in the Indo-Saracenic style. The onion-shaped dome makes it look almost like a mosque.
One of my favorite pictures taken from atop the Acropolis in 2006. The tiltshift effect was created using titltshiftmaker.com.
Ta Prohm is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ). Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray near Tonle Bati, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.
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