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 Sikh langar, or free temple meal, is largely lacto-vegetarian, though this is understood to be a result of efforts to present a meal that is respectful of the diets of any person who would wish to dine, rather than out of dogma.

Sculpture from the temple is largely fragmentary.

The Christian empire continued the punishment, by which time the church fathers and imperial law argued that, not only were the Jews a distinct, reprehensible ethno-national group, they were a group largely exiled or dispossessed of temple, city and land, for their rejection of Christ, a state it was deemed in which they were to remain in perpetuo.

Two other major religious sites, the Temple of Hephaestus ( which is still largely intact ) and the Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion ( once the largest temple in mainland Greece but now in ruins ) also lay within the city walls.

The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple ; it remains standing largely as built.

Ta Prohm () is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara ( in Khmer: រ ា ជវ ិ ហ ា រ ).

By the 20th century, much of the temple had largely collapsed, and restoration efforts have since proven problematic: a first effort begun in 1960 was interrupted by the coming to power of the Khmer Rouge, and records of the positions of the stones were lost.

The temple is still largely unrestored: the initial clearing was from 1927 to 1932, and partial anastylosis was carried out in 1939.

Like the nearby Preah Khan and Ta Prohm the temple was left largely unrestored, with numerous trees and other vegetation growing among the ruins.

Leaving aside the escalation of scale – whereby each successive New Kingdom pharaoh strove to outdo his predecessors in volume and scope – the Ramesseum is largely cast in the same mould as Ramesses III's Medinet Habu or the ruined temple of Amenhotep III that stood behind the " Colossi of Memnon " a kilometre or so away.

Other temples and shrines in Rome dedicated to Concordia were largely geographically related to the main temple, and included ( in date order ):

The materials of the old structure the temple were largely employed, and many of the columns were in good preservation.

The town came to largely obscure the temple, whose monumental remains were revealed as a result of American bombing of German positions in World War II.

At the time, weddings were largely a matter of civic registration rather than religious ceremony, but one of the first acts of their shared life was a short pilgrimage from Ōtsu to the remains of the Buddhist temple complex on Mount Hiei ( Which, coincidentally, would later become the Kyoto headquarters of Kenshin's future nemesis Shishio Makoto ).

The fourth temple remains largely covered by the modern streets of Rome.

Nishi Hongan-ji also contains a large shogun complex from the medieval period, which was largely moved into the temple from elsewhere in Kyoto in the 16th century.

The present temple structure probably dates largely from 1878, while the temple furniture probably dates from the Xianfeng era ( 1850-1861 ).

The temple was built of megalithic blocks ( the largest is an estimated 400 tonnes ), but it is now largely in ruins.

Subsequent interpretations have largely built on this theory even if they disallow that a temple sculpture could represent a contemporary event rather than a mythological or historical one.

The east dike, for instance, appears to be largely a section of a dike that enclosed the capital city of King Yasovarman, which had the Phnom Bakheng temple at its center.

It was built in 591 over a Pagan temple and was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1646.

This temple is built largely of wood.

The rebel, Lugalanne, has even destroyed the temple Eanna, one of the greatest temples in the ancient world, and then made advances on his sister-in-law.

He presumably completed the work before 391, since at 22. 16. 12 he praises the Serapeum in Egypt as the glory of the empire, and the temple was destroyed by Christians at the end of that year.

They destroyed Camulodunum ( modern Colchester ), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but then a colonia ( a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers ) and the site of a temple to the former Emperor Claudius, which was built and maintained at local expense.

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.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

The 6th century BC temple was named the " Temple of Alcmeonidae " in tribute to the Athenian family who funded its reconstruction following a fire, which had destroyed the original structure.

This temple was destroyed in 373 BC by an earthquake.

The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).

The city and temple of Jerusalem were completely destroyed, its most valuable treasures carried off by the Roman army, and nearly 100, 000 people were captured and enslaved.

We know that the temple created by the Rhoecus sculptors and architects was destroyed between 570-60 BC.

in the course of the Nika Riot, “ The temple of Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, and the imperial courtyard from the Propylaia all the way to the so-called House of Ares were burned up and destroyed, as were both of the great porticos that lead to the forum that is named after Constantine, houses of prosperous people, and a great deal of other properties .” The warring factions of Byzantine society, the Blues and the Greens, opposed each other in the chariot races at the Hippodrome and often resorted to violence.

Once in control of Samaria, he summoned all of the worshipers of Baal to the capital, slew them (), and destroyed the temple of that deity ().

Shortly after that, when the temple was destroyed by fire, Julian suspected the Christians and ordered stricter investigations than usual.

Even though the temple was severely damaged and most of the Jedi perished, it was not completely destroyed, and is visible in the celebrations on Coruscant at the end of Return of the Jedi over twenty years later.

For each of the bosses destroyed, Pit receives one of three sacred treasures that are needed to access the fourth and final stage, the sky temple.

Before a mutual solution could be devised, the mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992 as the mosque was built by Babur allegedly on the site of a previous Hindu temple marking the birthplace of Rama.

One such event destroyed the first temple of Ishtar which was then rebuilt in 2260 BC by the Akkadian king Manishtusu.

The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.

Instead, the second coming is symbolic of a " judgment " against Jerusalem that is said to have taken place when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70.

In the preterist view, the Tribulation took place in the past when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70 during the end stages of the First Jewish – Roman War, and it only affected the Jewish people rather than all mankind.

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

The prophecies were all fulfilled on the then-existing temple that Jesus spoke about and that was subsequently destroyed within that generation.

Some classical-era Rabbis, attacking Solomon's moral character, have claimed instead that the child was an ancestor of Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Solomon's temple some 300 years later.

Their temple was built at Mount Gerizim in the middle of fifth century BC and was destroyed by the Macabbean ( Hasmonean ) John Hyrcanus late in 110 BC, although their descendants still worship among its ruins.

Some accounts claim that a supposed southern Shaolin Temple was destroyed instead of, or in addition to, the temple in Henan: Ju Ke, in the Qing bai lei chao ( 1917 ), locates this temple in Fujian province.