Major Temple cities: Puri, which hosts a major Vaishnava Jagannath temple and Rath Yatra celebration ; Katra, home to the Vaishno Devi temple ; Three comparatively recent temples of fame and huge pilgrimage are Shirdi, home to Sai Baba of Shirdi, Tirumala-Tirupati, home to the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple ; and Sabarimala, where Swami Ayyappan is worshipped.

In the eastern coastal state of Orissa the famous Jagannath temple idols are made up of Neem heart wood along with some other essential oils and powders.

Rich and ornate wood and stone carving can be found in medieval temple of Jagannath at Puri in Orissa.

* Sree Mandira ( Oriya: ଶ ୍ ର ୀ ମନ ୍ ଦ ି ର ) is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to Jagannath ( Krishna ) and located in the coastal town of Puri in the state of Orissa, India.

Starting with the rituals of Jagannath temple in Puri it was regularly performed in Shaivite, Vaishnavite and Sakta temples in Orissa.

The Vaishnavite Temples such as Jagannath Temple and Konark Sun Temple abound with an array of dancing sculptures carved into the temple walls, giving testimony that a particular school of dancing had continued from the Shaivite art tradition to the Vaishnavite art form.

The consecration of females to the service of temple dancing began in the Shaivite temples and continued in the Jagannath temple in service of the Lord Jagannath.

The longer piece that emerges from the center of the back piece is called the Tahiya, and this represents the temple spire of Lord Jagannath or the flute of Lord Krishna.

In the temple of Lord Jagannath this festival is observed as Nabanki and ' Uttarayana Yatra '.

The most famous festival related to Jagannath is the Ratha yatra, where Jagannath, along with the other two associated deities, comes out of the sanctum sanctorum of the chief temple ( Bada Deula ).

In this temple, Jagannath is part of a triad of deities that includes Balabhadra and goddess Subhadra.

Apart from the principal companion deities Balabhadra and Subhadra, Jagannath is worshipped in the Shree Jagannath Temple of Puri along with Sudarshana Chakra, Madhava, Sridevi and Bhudevi on the principal platform ; and Ratnavedi ( Ratna: Bejewelled, Vedi: Platform / Pedestal-The bejewelled platform ) in the inner sanctum sanctorum of the temple.

In the midst of these lesser shrines is the main temple, called the Bada Deula ( The Big or Principal Temple ), in which the predominating deity Jagannath appears.

But identification of Indradyumna with Indraratha is at variance with the long-accepted tradition that Yayati I, the remote predecessor of Indraratha, built the Jagannath temple at Puri.

Tribhuneshwar then instructed Narada that Indradyumna should construct a magnificent temple of Jagannath at the same place.

William Bruton, the first English traveler to visit Puri and to see the Jagannath temple, made a certain counter-factual observation in 1633 that the image of Jagannatha " is in shape like a serpent, with seven heads " and the holy pagoda is " the mirror of all wickedness and idolatry ".

It was thought, for instance, that the temple of Puri occupied almost certainly the site of an earlier Buddhist shrine, without any real evidence to support this view ; while General Alexander Cunningham's suggestions that the figure of Jagannath was derived from the Buddhist symbol of the triratna ( or taurine ) was accepted even by such authorities as the Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy.

British historian William Wilson Hunter in the first volume on the British province of Orissa and the temple of Jagannath has remarked that the aboriginal people worshiped a Blue Stone inside dense forests as Nila Madhava.

He spent the last 24 years of his life in Puri, Orissa, the great temple city of Jagannäth.

* Jagannathpur Temple: It is 10 km apart from Ranchi town Jagannathpur temple was built in 1691 having resemblance with architectural style of Puri temple.

* Early Middle Oriya ( 1200 – 1400 ): The earliest use of prose can be found in the Madala Panji or the Palm-leaf Chronicles of the Jagannatha temple at Puri, which date back to the 12th century.

* Maharis were Oriya devadasis or temple girls, their name deriving from Maha ( great ) and Nari or Mahri ( chosen ) particularly those at the temple of Jagganath at Puri.

Makar Mela is observed at Dhabaleswar in Cuttack, Hatakeshwar at Atri in Puri, Makar Muni temple in Balasore and near various deities in each district of Orissa.

The principal image of the deity is at the temple city of Puri in the Indian state of Orissa.

The most significant of Jagannath's many shrines is the temple at Puri, Orissa.

The king of Orissa had built the great temple at Puri and wished to install Jagannatha in it, and he found a Brahmin to fetch it from Seori-Narayan, but nobody knew where it was except the old hermit, Savar.

Jagannatha consented and assuming the form of a log of wood, floated down the Mahanadi to Puri, where he was taken out and placed in the temple.

After Anantavarman Chodagangadev, who commissioned the temple at Puri, his chief queen, Kasturikamodini, built a temple in his homeland in Tekkali ( present Andhra Pradesh ), east of his first capital Kalinganagar, in 1150 CE.

The temple was dedicated to the god Dadhivaman, and the inscription reveals that the image installed was of the wooden God, and not the famous Puri Trinity of Jagannath-Balabhadra-Subhadra.

In a note appearing in JRAS, 1981, pp. 26 – 39, as per noted historian, Dr. Hermann Kulke has tried of late to prove ( with the academic help of Oriya scholars ) that the Puri temple had been originally built by Ganga king Anantavarman Codaganga ( 1078-1147 AD ) for Vishnu ( Krisna ) and Lakshmi and that Balarama was introduced there at about 1230 AD ), during the reign of Anangabhima III-1239 AD after Devi Laksmi's transformation into Subhadra.

Not so, he answers, it is not the architect but the temple that is immortal.

Nearby is the temple of Athena.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

The old oracles in Delphi seem to be connected with a local tradition of the priesthood, and there is not clear evidence that a kind of inspiration-prophecy existed in the temple.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

He is commemorated in the Walhalla temple, a monument near Regensburg to the distinguished figures of German history.

In Asgard also is a temple for the 12 gods, Gladsheim, and another for the 12 goddesses, Vingólf.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus, but was dissuaded by the pagan priests.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

Whether this temple replaced an older one, or a mere sacred precinct or altar, is not known.

East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.

The temple of Athena Nike is the only edifice still unfinished, pending proper reassembly of its parts, all of which survive practically intact.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.