Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.

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

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Ritual fights usually take place outside the temple proper and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Tenochtilan's main temple complex, the Templo Mayor, was dismantled and the central district of the Spanish colonial city's was constructed on top of it.

The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a 12th century A. D. inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which refers to syam, or " dark brown " people.

Ancestor worship at a Buddhist temple complex, Mount Emei

Veddas along with the Island's Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim communities venerate the temple complex situated at Kataragama, showing the syncretism that has evolved over 2, 000 years of coexistence and assimilation.

The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built during the reign of Suryavarman II in Cambodia of the Khmer Era.

* Borobudur, a Buddhist temple complex, is begun ( approximate date ).

* 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.

* 3600 – 3200 BC — Construction of the first temple within the Mnajdra solar temple complex on Malta, containing " furniture " such as stone benches and tables, that set it apart from other European megalith constructions.

* 3200 – 2500 BC — Construction of the Ħaġar Qim megalithic temple complex on Malta, featuring both solar and lunar alignments.

They are characterised by a complex profusion of sculpture decorating all the temple parts chiseled of soft soapstone ( chloritic schist ), a good material for intricate carving, executed mostly by local craftsmen, and exhibit architectural features that distinguish them from other temple architectures of South India.

There is an archeological museum in the temple complex.

The temple was constructed in 60 – 70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years.

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.

* c. 9500 BC ; First building phase of the temple complex at Göbekli Tepe.

It is reported that Hatshepsut had these trees planted in the courts of her Deir el Bahri mortuary temple complex.

Djeser-Djeseru is the main building of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahri.

The temple complex was constructed from 1406 to 1420 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, who was also responsible for the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Due to the deterioration of state budget, this became the last large-scale renovation of the temple complex in the imperial time.

Even though there had been efforts by temples of the Nikkō-lineage in the late 19th century to unify into one single separate Nichiren-School the Kommon-ha, today's Nichiren Shōshū comprises only the Taiseki-ji temple and its dependant temples.

The temple complex at Grass Island comprises three temples in two buildings: the first building is a Tin Hau Temple, built in 1737, to which an annex was later added, housing a Kwan Tai Temple.

The whole temple comprises seven terraces, divided into three parts.

The temple complex comprises eight main shrines, surrounded by 224 smaller shrines.

The land was mainly occupied by different classes of Hindus and Christians, The few major ancient families were present in centuries back but now the scenario changed to increased number of families by increased population, the ancients families comprises the only one Brahmin family kolasseri mana ( Kannakulangara sree krishna swamy temple owned by the same Kolassery Mana, they are one of the trusties of Sree Narasimha Temple-Kadamuri ) and main seven Nair families of Vadasseril ( A big family comprises several sub families, Rather than the three major temples a small devi temple attached to their Primeval Ancestral home ' Vadasseril '.

Within the walled compound, the temple comprises a combination of covered halls, shrines and service areas as well as open to sky spaces.

For this reason, the sun temple shares many architectural elements with the pyramid complex itself: it comprises a high temple build around a large obelisk and a causeway leads to a rectangular valley temple, close to the Nile.

The temple comprises an architectural masterpiece of stone, tiles and wood, dragons and phoenixes, amazing cravings, sculptures and imposing columns.

Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Melkart and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius ( who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.

Boudica's army fell on the poorly defended city and destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell.

* Cleopatra and Periboea of Locris, two maidens sent to the Trojan temple of Athena in retribution for Ajax the Lesser's sacrilege

To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.

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 ).

The temple and forum together took up the entire space between the two main east-west roads ( a few above-ground remains of the east end of the temple precinct still survive in the Russian Mission in Exile ).

The correlation between the two rises from two other important connections: ( 1 ) that the name of Marduk's sanctuary at Babylon bears the same name, Esaggila, as that of a temple in Eridu, and ( 2 ) that Marduk is generally termed the son of Ea, who derives his powers from the voluntary abdication of the father in favour of his son.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

In Japan, hearses, called " reikyusha " ( 霊柩車 ), can come in two styles: " Foreign " style, which is similar in build and style to an American hearse, or a " Japanese " style, in which the rear area of the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple.

Iikubo, Kano's Kitō-ryū instructor, attended the dojo three days a week to help teach and, although two years would pass before the temple would be called by the name, and Kano had not yet received his in Kitō-ryū, this is now regarded as the Kodokan founding.

The icon sits cross-legged in a meditative posture, and the temple has two white towers of the classic North Indian form.

The story concludes with Miaoshan being transformed into the Thousand Armed Guanyin, and the king, queen and her two sisters building a temple on the mountain for her.

However, until the Destruction of the second temple, about two thousand years ago, taking Nazirite vows was a common feature of the religion.

After the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, the Emperor imposed an extra poll tax on Jews throughout the empire, the fiscus judaicus, of two denari each.

Each academic unit is designed with a two story temple front facing the quadrangle, while the library is modeled on the Roman Pantheon.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

The two main deities found in Hoysala temple sculpture are Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu in their various forms and avatars ( incarnations ).

The two Nandi statues which are on the side of the Hoysaleshwara temple are monolithic.

Yet no two sculptures of the temple are the same.

The triumphal destination was the temple of Jupiter Capitolinis ( Capitoline Jupiter ), to whom the victor offered his laurel crown and two perfect white bulls as a thanks-offering.