Mankhim ( temple ) of Khambu at Aritar, Sikkim

The “ Annual Russian / Slavic Food Festival ,” observed the first full weekend of each November, brings visitors to tour the temple, see traditional Slavic and Russian dances, and sample time-honored ethnic plate lunches and baked goods prepared by the Sisterhood of Saint Olga.

The old temple dedicated to the national god of the Assyrians Assur ( Ashur ) was also rebuilt, indicating the continued occupation by ethnic Assyrians.

There is one Hindu temple in Binjai, located on Ahmad Yani Street, and the Hindu population are mainly made up of ethnic Indians.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

San Gregorio Armeno in Naples was built in that century over the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Ceres, by a group of nuns escaping from the Byzantine Empire with the relics of Gregory the Illuminator.

On 21 January 2007, a group of Hellenic neopagans held a ceremony honoring Zeus on the grounds of the temple.

This group was led by those who opposed the establishnent of a new temple in Hamburg as reflected in the booklet " Ele Divrei HaBerit ".

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Chirst, which Latter-day Saints believe is a companion book of scripture with the Bible, refers to temple building in the ancient Americas by a group of people called the Nephites.

In October 1898, a group of Boxers attacked the Christian community of Liyuantun village, where a temple to the Jade Emperor had been converted into a Catholic church.

One was held at her Aventine temple ; the other was hosted by the wife of Rome's senior annual magistrate, for an invited group of elite matrons and female attendants.

When the child was born, she exposed him near the temple of Jupiter, where he was found, lying next to a fire, by a group of girls ( one version says that these girls were also sisters of the Depidii ), who had come to fetch water from a nearby spring.

One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to utilise this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle.

The Saints built their first temple there, a historic landmark that is now owned and operated by the Community of Christ, a group descended from the church founded by Smith.

What once was a group of nine independent churches on a common platform became a monolithic temple.

The site contains several large temple pyramids, the tallest, in what is known as the Nohoch Mul group of structures, being some in height.

A group of Buddhist Monks at the Wat Phra Kaew temple

The first group performed only in the temple sex-rites, the second group had the run of the grounds and catered to its visitors as well, and the third and lowest class lived on the temple grounds but were free to seek out customers in the streets.

The whole group descended the mountain immediately to discuss plans to build the temple.

The group also contains the main temple, called the yohopàe, which translates to “ house of the vital force .” This temple faces a large courtyard.

Images on swords were also somewhat common, and included: A man, woman and child ( symbolic of Pythias saying goodby to his family ); a man looking out of a building, with a group of people below ( symbolic of Damon's pending execution ); a man between some pillars, pulling them down ( similar to Samson destroying his enemy's temple ); or various types of weapons ( swords, axes, hammers, etc .).

The group of 8th century CE monuments in Pattadakal are the culmination of the earliest experiments in the vesara style of Hindu temple architecture.

They collected an annual temple tax, thereby treating all Jews as a distinct ethno-national group.

The Christian empire continued the punishment, by which time the church fathers and imperial law argued that, not only were the Jews a distinct, reprehensible ethno-national group, they were a group largely exiled or dispossessed of temple, city and land, for their rejection of Christ, a state it was deemed in which they were to remain in perpetuo.

The Emerald Buddha reappeared in a chance discovery in Chiang Rai in 1434, after a lightning storm struck a temple.

One account of its discovery tells that lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang Rai, after which, something became visible beneath the stucco.

The Rai Dynasty of Sindh were patrons of Buddhism even though they also established a huge temple of Shiva in present-day Sukkur, derived from original Shankar, close to their capital in Alor.

The festival is centred around the protector deity of Mandi " Mado Rai " ( Lord Vishnu ) and Lord Shiva of the Bhootnath temple in Mandi.

The Hari Rai temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and dates back to 11th century.

" Chedi ( temple ) | Chedi Rai " near Phra Rabieng cloister

He built a recreation hall, a hall for prayer in the mouza of Malibagicha, a temple named Raghunath Bari. He introduced Dole festival of Sri Krishna Rai Jew.

The great temple of Keshava Rai at Mathura was built by Bir Singh Deo Bundela during Jahangir ’ s time at a cost of thirty-three lakhs of rupees.

Prince Dara Shukoh, who was looked upon by the masses as the future Emperor, had presented a carved stone railing to the temple which was installed in front of the deity at some distance ; the devotees stood outside this railing to have ‘ darshan ’ of Keshava Rai.

Wat Phra Kaew () is a third-common-class royal temple situated in the area of 10, 640 square metres on Trairat road, Wiang sub-district, Muang Chiang Rai in Chiang Rai City.

Wat Pra Singh () is a Buddhist temple located on Thanon Singkhlai in Tambon Wiang, Mueang district, Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand.

* In Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian ( Luwian ) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branchidae received inspiration by drinking from a healing spring located in the temple.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

After its destruction, scholars used a " daughter library " in a temple known as the Serapeum, located in another part of the city.

The temple is located about 500 m ( 1640 feet ) south-east of the Acropolis, and about 700 m ( 2, 300 feet ) south of the center of Athens, Syntagma Square.

Most pyramids are located near Cairo, with only one royal pyramid being located south of Cairo, at the Abydos temple complex.

These interface machines are connected to the brain through a Datajack generally located at the temple or behind the ear.

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

It has been supposed that the sanctuary might have been even more ancient, perhaps a Christian adaption of some already existing temple: the church is in fact located just in front of the sacred campus dedicated to Rediculus, the Roman " God of the Return ".

Temples like Dattadeva temple, which is revered by the people of Maharashtra, is located on the banks of Krishna at Narasoba Waadi and Audumber near Sangli.

* Pattiseema-A village where a Hindu temple is located on a small hill on an island in the river.

Göbekli Tepe, located in southern Turkey, is the oldest-known, existing temple in the world.

The rituals that located and sited the temple were performed by an augur through the observation of the flight of birds or other natural phenomenon.

The small chamber was located below the general floor of the temple and offset to one side, perhaps constructed specifically over the crossing faults.

Note that the large flat expanse was a base for the temple located there

The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

Her temple, the Esagila ( from Sumerian E ( temple ) + SAG ( head ) + ILA ( lofty )) was located on the KUR of Eridu, although she also had a temple at Kish.

Inanna's primary temple of worship was the Eanna, located in Uruk ( c. f.

Britomartis was worshipped as Aphaea ( Pausanias, 2. 30. 3 ) primarily on the island of Aegina in Mycenaean times, where the temple " Athena Aphaea " was later located.