It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

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 family home was, in fact, a temple ; ;

All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.

Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.

A temple was dedicated to Apollo Medicus at Rome, probably next to the temple of Bellona.

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

* At Khyrse, in Troad, the temple was built for Apollon Smintheus

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.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.

His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.

Mary was the temple of God but not God in the temple.

Therefore only the one who was in the temple can be worshipped.

The temple school was widely denounced in the press.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

He called himself " The anointed priest of Anu " and " the great ensi of Enlil " and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur.

The site was abandoned soon after the city's massive walls were constructed, its temple rebuilt and its grain production reorganised.

* Bakheng Style ( 889-923 ): Bakheng was the first temple mountain constructed in the area of Angkor proper north of Siem Reap.

* Banteay Srei Style ( 967-1000 ): Banteay Srei is the only major Angkorian temple constructed not by a monarch, but by a courtier.

The 10th century temple of Ta Keo is the first Angkorian temple to be constructed more or less entirely from Sandstone.

Enclosures surrounding a temple are often constructed with a gopura at each of the four cardinal points.

The first temple was said to have been constructed out of olive branches from Tempe.

The fourth temple was said to have been constructed from stone by Trophonius and Agamedes.

In 131, the Emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem " Aelia Capitolina " and constructed a Temple of Jupiter on the site of the former Jewish temple.

The first Jain temple to be built outside India was constructed and consecrated in the 1960s in Mombasa, Kenya by the local Gujarati Jain community, although Jainism in the West mostly came about after the Oswal and Jain diaspora spread to the West in the late 1970s and 1980s.

An earlier temple had stood there, constructed by the tyrant Pisistratus around 550 BC.

A walled marble-paved precinct was constructed around the temple, making it a central focus of the ancient city.

The team discovers the small Tyrathca settlement, a race of ( socially ) insect-like Aliens who have suffered great losses to attacks by possessed humans, passing by a small temple being constructed even though the Tyrathca race do not have religion.

Numa constructed a new temple to Janus and, after establishing peace with Rome's neighbours, shut the doors of the temple to indicate a state of peace.

The temple at Arasavilli was constructed in such a way that on the day of Radhasaptami, the sun's rays directly fall on the feet of the Sri Suryanarayana Swami, the deity at the temple.

After the completion of the temple, Solomon is described as erecting many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem ; for the long period of 13 years he was engaged in the building of a royal palace on Ophel ( a hilly promontory in central Jerusalem ); Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city, and the Millo ( Septuagint, Acra ) for the defense of the city.

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 Temple of Antoninus and Faustina is constructed in Rome, the temple is dedicated to Faustina the Elder.

* The first Temple of Confucius is constructed in Northern China ( outside the ancestral temple at Qufu ).

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.

A small circus described by Leake proved to be a theatre-like building constructed soon after AD 200 around the altar and in front of the temple of Artemis Orthia.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

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

In this temple, entirely decked out in gold, the people worship the statues of three gods in such wise that the mightiest of them, Thor, occupies a throne in the middle of the chamber ; Wotan and Frikko have places on either side.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

It occurred entirely in the past, around 70 AD when the armed forces of the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem and its temple.

It occurred entirely in the past, around 70 AD when the armed forces of the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem and its temple.

Even as he claimed that " I am a bigoted Greek in the condemnation of the Roman architecture …," he did not seek to rigidly impose Greek forms, stating that " ur religion requires a church wholly different from the temple, our legislative assemblies and our courts of justice, buildings of entirely different principles from their basilicas ; and our amusements could not possibly be performed in their theatres or amphitheatres.

On a rock beside the sea are the remains of a medieval castle, built almost entirely of the marble remains of an ancient temple.

Petrie dug and soon solved the puzzle: the temple had been built by Merenptah, the son and successor of Ramesses II, almost entirely from stone which had been plundered from the temple of Amenophis III nearby.

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

According UNESCO, " the present temple is one of the earliest and most imposing structures built entirely in brick from Gupta period ".

In this temple, built entirely of gold, the people worship the statues of three gods.

Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, Neasden ’ s Swaminarayan Mandir has been described as being Britain ’ s first authentic Hindu temple.

* Birla Mandir, on the Naubath Pahad is a Hindu temple of Lord Venkateshwara, built entirely of white marble located in Hyderabad,

Once the chosen girl completes the Tantric purification rites and crosses from the temple on a white cloth to the Kumari Ghar to assume her throne, her life takes on an entirely new character.

Building C was not a temple but its function is not entirely clear.

It was built of stone ( unavailable locally ) in imitation of a Babylonian temple, six stories tall, and entirely gilded.

The city wall has almost entirely been demolished, except for one tower and a short section of wall attached to it, which survived because the tower was converted into a temple in the medieval period.

This form is sometimes called pseudoperipteral, as distinct from a true peripteral temple like the Parthenon entirely surrounded by free-standing columns.

This temple carved entirely out of white marble was built in 1021 by Vimal Shah, a minister of Bhimidev I, the Chalukya King ( Solanki Maharaja ) of Gujarat.

There is no door connecting the latter with the cella ; its existence is necessitated entirely by aesthetic considerations: to maintain the consistency of the peripteral temple and to ensure its viewability from all sides, the execution of the front has to be repeated at the rear.

Five pillared temple entirely Bengal Architecture.

That Wellington's principal Roman Catholic Cathedral is today a small, but quite perfect, Romano-Grecian temple is entirely the result of chance.

Akshardham includes a high monument constructed entirely of stone, two exhibition halls highlighting India Culture and values, Delhi's first large format movie theater, gardens, and a temple ( mandir ).