At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.

The Kingdom of Judah continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the center of ancient Jewish worship.

The Rabbis were faced with the new reality of Judaism without a Temple ( to serve as the center of teaching and study ) and Judea without autonomy, both serving as sources of pride.

In 2009, however, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies.

* a circular treatment center ( sometimes known as the Temple of Telesphorus )

The Temple in Jerusalem was the center of the Jewish religion, until its destruction in 70 CE, and all adult men who were able were required to visit and offer sacrifices ( korbanot ), particularly during Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.

Even though every district has its own urban core, the real city center is between Bund to the east, Nanjing Rd to the north, Old City Temple and Huaihai Road to the south.

The Romans fared very poorly during the initial revolt facing a completely unified Jewish force ( unlike during the First Jewish-Roman War, where Flavius Josephus records three separate Jewish armies fighting each other for control of the Temple Mount during the three weeks time after the Romans had breached Jerusalem's walls and were fighting their way to the center ).

As the Rabbis were required to face a new reality — mainly Judaism without a Temple ( to serve as the center of teaching and study ) and Judea without at least partial autonomy — there was a flurry of legal discourse and the old system of oral scholarship could not be maintained.

The church also maintains a visitors ' center at the hill and the former Smith property and homes, which straddles the border between Ontario and Wayne counties, as well as the Palmyra New York Temple.

Haifa was located near the town of Shikmona, a center for making the traditional Tekhelet dye used in the garments of the high priests in the Temple.

During the Second Temple Period it functioned also as an economical center.

File: UB-Gandan01. jpg | Vajradhara Temple ( 1841 ) in the center.

In the first decades of Roman rule, the Temple remained the center of Jewish ritual life.

His followers built a comprehensive center of practice there, calling it Daibutsu Temple ( Daibutsu-ji, 大仏寺 ).

The Riemchen Building, named for the brick shape called Riemchen by the Germans, is a memorial with a ritual fire kept burning in the center for the Stone-Cone Temple after it was destroyed.

An LDS visitors ' center is currently situated adjacent to the Temple Lot, with the Community of Christ temple directly across the street.

Instead, in the center building of the Temple of Heaven, in a structure called the " Imperial Vault of Heaven ", a " spirit tablet " ( 神位, or shénwèi ) inscribed with the name of Shangdi is stored on the throne, Huangtian Shangdi ( 皇天上帝 ).

From the 1940s to 1980s, it became a center of Reform and Conservative Jewish life that included the largest Reform synagogue on Long Island ( Temple Israel ).

The second hotel, the Aldridge ( currently a retirement center for senior citizens ), built in 1928 at the northwest corner of 9th and Bell streets, was a result of the wealth and growth generated by the oil boom of the 1920s, as was the four-story Masonic Temple Office Building, which was constructed in 1929 directly south of the Alridge Hotel.

The center is located in the building that once served as Lansdale's Masonic Temple.

Temple is known for its strength as a regional medical center ( this is primarily due to the highly respected Scott & White Memorial Hospital ).

* In Kingston, Ontario, a full-scale Passion Play production has been traditionally performed for decades at the Kingston Gospel Temple, a Pentecostal worship center.

During the Persian period, the Temple became more than the center of worship in Judea after its reconstruction in 516 BCE ; it served as the center of society.

Kyoto's character was defined by the Imperial Court, the court nobles, its Buddhist temples and its history ; Osaka was the country's commercial center, dominated by the chōnin ( merchant class ).

The ancient Buddhist temple of Sensō-ji still stands in Asakusa, marking the center of an area of traditional Shitamachi culture.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country.

Palembang was a center for scholarly learning, and it was there the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim I Ching studied Sanskrit in 671 CE before departing for India.

The center grew and in 1982 he and his colleague Sister Chân Không founded Plum Village Buddhist Center ( Làng Mai ), a monastery and Practice Center in the Dordogne in the south of France .< ref name =" BBC ">

* Sarnath becomes a center of Buddhist arts in India.

* A center of Buddhist studies is established at Nalanda in Bihar on the plains of the Ganges River ( India ).

Srivijaya was also a notable center of Vajrayana Buddhist learning and influence.

The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point.

* Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne

Mount Meru (), also called Sumeru i. e. the " Excellent Meru " and Mahameru i. e. " Great Meru ", is a sacred mountain in Jain cosmology, Hindu as well as Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

* Tenzin Gyatso Institute for Wisdom and Compassion a Buddhist retreat center operated by Rigpa.

Ejo started his Buddhist studies at Mount Hiei, the center of Tendai studies.

Nonetheless, no scholars have yet identified a major center of Buddhist learning in Persia which corresponds to the Bonpos ' land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring.

Though the city's exact location is not certain, it presently lies in the Munshiganj District of Bangladesh, and continues to be celebrated as an early center of Buddhist cultural, academic, and political life.

Upon educating the young Atiśa in the basic principles of Mahayana Buddhism, Jetari advised that he go to Nalanda, a Buddhist center for learning in northeastern India.

In 1967 he and Akong Rinpoche were invited by the Johnstone House Trust in Scotland to take over a meditation center on the departure of the western Theravadan monk named Anandabodhi, which then became Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West.

Establishes Tail of the Tiger, a Buddhist meditation and study center in Vermont, now known as Karmê Chöling.

In the period 850-1025 A. D., Palembang prospered as a centre of trade between the East and West and as a center of Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.

It was a great center of Buddhist learning and very prosperous during the 3rd century AD.

During his travels he visited holy sites, learned the lore of his faith, and studied with many famous Buddhist masters, especially at the famous center of Buddhist learning at Nālanda University.