they will destroy the shrines, temples, museums, and churches of the state that is the implacable enemy of the life they believe in.

Herodotus relates that under his prudent administration, Egypt reached a new level of wealth ; Amasis adorned the temples of Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments ( his activity here is proved by existing remains ).

Other aediculae were small shrines within larger temples, usually set on a base, surmounted by a pediment and surrounded by columns.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

In addition, and strongly influenced by Babylonian and Akkadian practices, the Achaemenids popularized shrines and temples, hitherto alien forms of worship.

We find temples and shrines erected in his honour, e. g. at Nippur, Girsu, Ur, Babylon, Sippar, and Nineveh, and the numerous epithets given to him, as well as the various forms under which the god appears, alike bear witness to the popularity which he enjoyed from the earliest to the latest period of Babylonian-Assyrian history.

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

Around 405, Chrysostom began to lend moral and financial support to Christian monks who were enforcing the emperors ' anti-Pagan laws, by destroying temples and shrines in Phoenicia and nearby regions.

* Mon ( architecture ), gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, and castles in Japan

Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit.

Before the Meiji Restoration, shrines were disorganized institutions usually attached to Buddhist temples, but they were claimed by the government during the imperial period for patriotic use and systematized.

The Meiji Restoration reasserted the importance of the emperor and the ancient chronicles to establish the Empire of Japan, and in 1868 the government attempted to recreate the ancient imperial Shinto by separating shrines from the temples that housed them.

( 1964 ) The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan .</ REF > Sake production was a government monopoly for a long time, but in the 10th century, temples and shrines began to brew sake, and they became the main centers of production for the next 500 years.

Sources of competition included the emperor and the court aristocracy, the remnants of the imperial governmental systems, the shōen system, the great temples and shrines, the shugo and the jitō, the kokujin and early modern daimyo.

More than 4, 600 monasteries and 40, 000 temples and shrines are destroyed.

The people, houses, temples, shrines and domestic animals are greatly damaged.

Signs and notices in city offices and police stations, at shrines, temples and attractions also use it.

Hindu temples began as simple shrines housing a deity and by the time of the Hoysalas had evolved into well articulated edifices in which worshippers sought transcendence of the daily world.

Families throughout Han China made ritual sacrifices of animals and foodstuffs to deities, spirits, and ancestors at temples and shrines, in the belief that these items could be utilized by those in the spiritual realm.

Many small gambling houses cropped up in abandoned temples or shrines at the edge of towns and villages all over Japan.

Morpheus also sent warnings and prophecies to those who slept at shrines and temples.

* Shintoist jinja are normally called shrines in English in order to distinguish them from Buddhist temples (- tera ,-dera ).

Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji ( fortune slip ) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan.

Here are temples built in honour of the Grecian gods, and adorned after the Greek fashion with images, altars, and shrines, all in wood.

Xinsheng South Road is known as the " Road to Heaven " due to its high concentration of temples, shrines, churches, and mosques.

By the third millennium BCE, widespread civilizations had developed sophisticated awareness of celestial cycles, and are believed to have consciously oriented their temples to create alignment with the heliacal risings of the stars.

An early terrace wall supports a precinct in which are a stoa and some remains of temples ; these were excavated by the British School at Athens in 1894, but little was found.

The temples of the Preah Ko style are known for their small brick towers and for the great beauty and delicacy of their lintels.

Other temples in this style are Banteay Samre and Thommanon in the area of Angkor, and Phimai in modern Thailand.

Angkor's neighbor state of Champa was also the home to numerous brick temples that are similar in style to those of Angkor.

The walls defining the enclosures of Khmer temples are frequently lined by galleries, while passage through the walls is by way of gopuras located at the cardinal points.

Most temples at Angkor are dedicated to Shiva.

In pan-China cultures, there are many temples where representations of the Buddha, Laozi and Confucius are found together.

There are also many temples dedicated to him, which have been used for Confucianist ceremonies.

Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.

There were many temples built on this site so evidence is somewhat confusing and archaeological dates are uncertain.

Several non-Jain temples in India are administered by Jains.

Jains have built temples where idols of tirthankaras are revered.

Among the exhibits are two Egyptian temples of Buhen and Semna which were originally built by Queen Hatshepsut and Pharaoh Tuthmosis III respectively but relocated to Khartoum upon the flooding of Lake Nasser.

These Kerala mural painting are on walls of Hindu temples.

Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

It is distinguished from other buildings by its green roof ( Buddhist temples are often built with a yellow roof ).

Villeins are known to have worked most frequently within agriculture, especially in the grounds of temples or palaces.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

With a background in architecture, Remey was asked to design the Australian and Ugandan Bahá ' í House of Worship which still stand today and are the mother temples for Australasia and Africa respectively.

" During the times of the two Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, the Aaronic priests were responsible for the daily and special Jewish holiday offerings and sacrifices within the temples, these offerings are known as the korbanot.