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Ta Phrom Temple site
At Ta Phrom in places the combination of the temple ruins and the trees, time and ground working on them produced a feeling that the ruins were being pushed up out of the earth - emerging....
Sensō-ji is an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest temple.
This photo accompanies an online travel diary that we wrote while travelling around the world for a year. The first part of the diary for this set (Singapore) can be found here.
The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Designed by the architect Senemut, the mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is located next to the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, which served both as an inspiration, and later, a quarry. It is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt."
Asakusa Kannon Temple, (Senso-ji), is the oldest temple in Tokyo, built in the year 645. The temple has been rebuilt many times. A new hall for the temple was built in 864, another in the 900's, and a remodel of the hall in the 1100's. The vermillion "Kaminarimon," (Thunder Gate), features statues of the deity of thunder, "Raijin," "Kaminari-no-kami," and the deity of wind, "Fujin," "Kage-no-kami," on either side. The large red paper lantern hanging from center of the gateway roof is nearly eleven feet tall, weighs 1,482 pounds. The lantern was recreated in 1955, after being destroyed by fire in 1865. The gigantic straw sandals, a gift from a provincial village, are meant to fit the Deva Kings. There is a huge incense burner which is said to have curative powers. The Asakusa Pagoda is 183 feet tall. It contains bits of the bones of the Buddha, a gift from Sri Lanka. The relics are in a golden container hanging from the ceiling on the uppermost floor. (Paraphrased from guidebook.)
The Rievaulx (pronounced ree-voh) terrace and temples is a National Trust property in North Yorkshire has two points of interest - the Ionic temple inspired by the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome, and the Tuscan Temple - a scaled down version of the mausoleum at Castle Howard. The name Rievaulx comes from Norman-French word val meaning Valley, and the name of the river Rye. They were erected in 1758 by Thomas Duncombe III.
The above picture is of the Tuscan temple.