Begun by Spencer in 1814, the annual gathering of the Big August Quarterly still draws people together in a religious and cultural festival, the oldest such cultural festival in the nation.

The Rig Veda, one of the oldest religious scriptures in the world, contain several references to the use of Dundhubi ( war drum ).

Written around 1080, one of the oldest written sources on pre-Christian Scandinavian religious practices is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels is the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe and among the oldest roads in the world, dated by dendrochronology to the winter of 3807-3806 BCE ; it too is thought to have been a primarily religious structure.

One of the oldest Western philosophies of human rights is that they are a product of a natural law, stemming from different philosophical or religious grounds.

The Pyramid Texts from ancient Egypt are one of the oldest known religious texts in the world dating to between 2400-2300 BCE.

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

It is generally asserted that Hindu religious texts are the oldest known literature containing pantheistic ideas.

In the second edition, Darwin added an epigraph from Joseph Butler affirming that God could work through scientific laws as much as through miracles, in a nod to the religious concerns of his oldest friends.

* 3600 BC — Construction of the Ġgantija megalithic temple complex on the Island of Gozo, Malta: the world's oldest extant unburied free-standing structures, and the world's oldest religious structures.

Remains found at Mungo suggest one of the world's oldest known cremations, thus indicating early evidence for religious ritual among humans.

The Misteri are amongst the oldest continuously running religious events in Europe, having been played every Good Friday since before the Easter of 1612.

He spent three days in the Rachol Seminary, the oldest convent of Goa, where rare religious literature in manuscripts and printed works in Latin were preserved.

Murcia has three types of schools for children: private schools such as El Limonar International School, Murcia ( an English language school ) and King's College, Murcia ( a British international school ), semi-private schools ( concertado ), which are private schools that receive government funding and sometimes offer religious instruction, and public schools such as Colegio Publico ( CP ) San Pablo or the centenary CP Cierva Peñafiel, one of the oldest ones.

Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions.

One of the first three bishoprics in Spain was founded in Astorga, so the title of Bishop of Astorga is one of the oldest religious charges of Europe.

In the south, in Strawberry Hill, lies St Mary's University College, Twickenham ( the oldest Catholic college in the United Kingdom ), historically specialising in sports studies, teacher training, religious studies and the humanities Drama studies and English literature.

The park features the oldest log meetinghouse in Kentucky, built in 1804 during a period of religious revival.

St. Joseph's is Wilmette's oldest religious congregation, established in 1843.

After the Quakers, the second oldest religious congregation in Burlington were the Episcopalians.

Now known as The American Baptist, the periodical is the oldest religious magazine in the U. S.

The oldest and most prominent of their corporation names, " Watch Tower Society ", has also been used synonymously with the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, even in their own literature.

Saturnalia was supposed to have been held on December 17 from the time of the oldest Roman religious calendar, which the Romans believed to have been established by the legendary founder Romulus and his successor Numa.

The " Schlössli " is the oldest building in the city.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

This remains the oldest stand ( dating back to 1905 ) not only in the Football League, but in the professional world and is thus a Grade II * listed building thanks to Jimmy Hill's efforts when saving the almost-bankrupt club as Chairman.

The oldest known building built according to this order is the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, constructed from 335 to 334 BCE.

A claimant for the oldest building is a former merchant's house in Higher Street, now a Good Beer Guide listed public house called the Cherub, built circa 1380.

The town's oldest building is the Maguire's stone castle, built by Hugh the Hospitable who died in 1428.

The eleventh century Erfurt Synagogue is thought to be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe.

Old Main, the oldest building on campus, was completed in 1881.

Kungshuset, the oldest university building ( completed 1584 ), currently houses the Department of Philosophy.

Malmö's oldest building is St Peter's Church.

On the far northwestern corner is James Observatory, the oldest building on campus.

* 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant ( Werk 2 ) across the street from Reutter Karosserie ; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse.

It landed on present day Riddarholmen where today the Tower of Birger Jarl stands, a building, as a consequence, still often erroneously mentioned as the oldest building in Stockholm.

The oldest building in Stockholm is the Riddarholmskyrkan from the late 13th century.

Dating from 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE, it is similar in design to Skara Brae, but from an earlier period, and it is thought to be the oldest preserved standing building in northern Europe.

It is housed in the completely renovated Garrand building, the site of the original Seattle College and the oldest building on campus.

The President's House, located on South University Avenue, is the oldest building on campus as well as the only surviving building from the original forty acre campus.