The largest monuments of the Buddhist era are in the islands fringing the eastern side of Haddhunmathi Atoll.

New religions like Sōka Gakkai, Shōshinkai, and Kenshōkai trace their origins to the Nichiren Shōshū school, most notably amongst those is Sōka Gakkai which due to its steady growth is regarded today as Japan's largest lay Buddhist organisation.

Some of the largest monasteries in the world are Buddhist.

The Catholic Church was the largest landowner in the country, and the “ private ” status that was imposed on Buddhism by the French, which required official permission to conduct public Buddhist activities, was never repealed by Diệm.

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

The London Buddhist Centre, at 51 Roman Road, is one of the largest urban Buddhist centres in the west, and is the focus of a large Buddhist residential and business community in the area.

It lies on the Southeastern region of Ukiah Valley and is home to the famous City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, one of the largest Chinese Zen Buddhist temple in the United States.

Located east of Ukiah, the temple is one of the largest Mahayana Buddhist communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Hsi Lai Temple ( meaning " Coming West ") is the largest Buddhist temple in Southern California.

Other houses of worship are also common, reflecting the cultural diversity existing in Australia ; the oldest Islamic structure in the southern hemisphere is the Central Adelaide Mosque ( built in the 1880s ), and one of the largest Buddhist Temples in the southern hemisphere is Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple.

Nichiren Buddhism is the second largest Buddhist sect in Japan today.

The largest new religion is Sōka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect founded in 1930, which has about 10 million members in Japan.

Richmond is also home to two of the largest Buddhist temples in North America, the International Buddhist Temple and the Ling Yen Mountain Temple.

It is a lay Buddhist movement within the school of Nichiren Buddhism and is being regarded as one of the largest Japanese new religions.

From Japan's post-war years the Sōka Gakkai emerged as the largest lay organization of Nichiren Buddhist practitioners, claiming membership of 8. 27 million households in Japan.

The SGI under his leadership has emerged as one of the largest and most dynamic Buddhist movements in the world, including the countries in North America, South America, Australia and parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, fostering and promoting grassroots activities in areas such as nuclear weapons abolition, sustainability and human rights education and cultural exchange.

First described as an insignificant " gathering of the sick and poor " after World War II in early 1950s, the perception changed to " new religious movement ", which created a substantial impact in society, and with its world wide growth, described as the largest and most diverse Buddhist group :" With 12 million members in 192 countries, SGI is the world's largest Buddhist lay group and the largest, most ethnically diverse Buddhist school in America …”.”.

The largest ō-daiko are too big to move and permanently reside inside a temple or shrine.

Diogenes also tells us that Heraclitus deposited his book as a dedication in the great temple of Artemis, the Artemisium, one of the largest temples of the 6th century BCE and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Herod the Great considerably enlarged the temple ( see Herod's Temple ), making it one of the largest religious structures in the world.

In Belgium, the very successful Indian diamond community in Antwerp, almost all of whom are Jain, opened the largest Jain temple outside India in 2010, to strengthen Jain values in and across Western Europe.

In May 2012 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest LDS denomination, dedicated a temple in the Shoal Creek area of Kansas City North.

During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.

However the largest temple pyramid in the area is Sri Rangam in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu. The Thanjavur temple was built by Raja raja Chola in 11 century.

Longhua temple, the largest temple in Shanghai, and Jing ' an Temple, were first founded in the Three Kingdoms period.

Most notably Cambodia which has the largest ancient Hindu temple complex in the world called Angkor Wat, which is also a UNESCO world heritage site.

The largest by far is the Temple of Olympian Zeus, built to commemorate the Battle of Himera in 480 BC: it is believed to have been the largest Doric temple ever built.

The 12th-century Khmer architecture | Khmer Angkor Wat Hindu temple in Cambodia, one of the largest temples in the world.

The Temple of the Delians is a “ peripteral ” Doric order temple, the largest of three dedicated to Apollo on the island of Delos.

The contemporary Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is also in the Doric order, although the sculptural enrichment is more familiar in the Ionic order: the Greeks were never as doctrinaire in the use of the Classical vocabulary as Renaissance theorists or neoclassical architects.

According to the instructions of Helenus, Priam's wife gathered matrons at the temple of Athena in the acropolis and offered the goddess the largest, fairest robe of Troy.

The Hout-ka-Ptah, dedicated to the worship of the creator god Ptah, was the largest and most important temple in ancient Memphis.

The site is today the largest surviving tell in the Nile delta, and consists of both Tell El-Ruba ( the site of the main temple enclosure ) and Tell El-Timai ( the settlement site of Thmuis to the south ).

Angkor Wat, the largest Angkorian temple built ( 1116 – 1150 AD ), features both apsaras and devata, however the devata type are the most numerous with more than 1, 796 in the present research inventory.

Christ Church (, the temple or house ( ædēs ) of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House ), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, the largest ocean current.

It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups.

* 1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U. S. history.

Virginia, the largest colony, deserved recognition, and New England — where the fighting began — realized it needed Southern support.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

Methodism boasts the largest number of higher education ministries, including teaching positions, of any Protestant denomination in the world in close competition with the Southern Baptist Convention.

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.

Romani are widely dispersed, with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France.

The largest group settled in Upper Canada ( called Canada West from 1841, and today Southern Ontario ), where numerous Black Canadian communities developed.

In the United States, it ranks as the largest mainline denomination, the second largest Protestant church after the Southern Baptist Convention, and the third largest Christian denomination.

The University of Southern California Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world.

* February 25 – The last public trams in Sydney, Australia, cease operation, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network.

* Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fes in the Almohad Empire.

He moved to St. Louis and founded the Southern Wire Company, which became the largest manufacturer of unlicensed or " bootleg " barbed wire.

Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded ( September 2006 ), over the Southern pole

The largest Fox affiliate ( in terms of Nielsen market ranking ) without any news programming whatsoever is WUTV / Buffalo, which is within range of Toronto and targets Southern Ontario heavily with its syndicated programs and advertising and has long opted to air sitcom reruns instead of investing in a news department or contracting news programming to another station in a television market with a large number of stations available from Buffalo, Hamilton and Toronto that produce local newscasts already.

As a result, the South became even more dependent on plantations and slavery, with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of the Southern economy.

The Central Pacific also established one of its largest rail yards and servicing facilities in West Oakland, which continued to be a major local employer under the Southern Pacific well into the 20th century.

* Primo smallgoods, a Sydney-based company, the largest producer of ham, bacon and small goods in the Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Royal Albatross is one of the largest of the Procellariiformes

One of the largest and the southernmost groups, living on the edge of the Edwards Plateau and east across to the Cross Timbers, became known as the Penatekas, ( Penatʉka Nʉʉ ) was called therefore Southern Comanches.