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.

Depictions of Vishnu are prominent at Angkor Wat, the 12th century temple that was originally dedicated to Vishnu.

Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.

The temple it originally came from was probably closed around AD 392 when Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered the closing of all non-Christian temples of worship.

It is originally from the Greek Μουσεῖον ( Mouseion ), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses ( the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts ), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musæum ( institute ) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BCE.

The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus (" he who wards off the wolf "), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests ( Luperci ) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.

* Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, by Monte Cook, returned the players to Gygax's infamous temple, which Rob Kuntz ( as Robilar ) had originally trashed.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

* Basar ( originally, Vyasara )-Sri Gyana Saraswati temple is situated on the banks of Godavari, in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh.

" ( p. 31 ) The Egyptians also, says Rice, were " to alter the orientation of a temple when the star on whose position it had originally been set moved its position as a consequence of the Precession, something which seems to have happened several times during the New Kingdom.

On the east of the town, in the Patturelli property, a temple has been discovered with Oscan votive inscriptions originally thought to be Oscan, now recognized as Etruscan, some of them inscribed upon terracotta tablets, the most famous of which is the Tabula Capuana, conserved in Berlin, still, after more than a century of searching, the second-longest Etruscan text.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

The Samothracians were also originally non-Greek, and are associated with the Trojans and the Pelasgians ; they used a foreign language in the temple through Julius Caesar's time.

It originally guarded the gate to Ebara-dera, a temple in Sakai, Osaka.

One of its more significant features is the temple of Apollo which was originally constructed as early as 7th century BC.

The temple was originally covered in painted stucco, with the decoration including the painted image of a jaguar.

He is said to have converted that temple into the Curia Hostilia close to where the Senate originally met in an old Etruscan hut.

Smith's original temple site, a smaller five-acre section within that 66 acres ( containing stones originally placed by Smith to mark the corners of his intended structure ), is currently owned by the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ), which hopes to build a temple of its own sometime in the future.

The remains of the great temple and its premises are displayed as an open-air museum near the great colossus of Rameses II, which originally marked the southern axis of the temple.

These stones decorated with reliefs from the Amarna period, originally from the ancient temple of Aten in Memphis, had almost certainly been reused in the foundations of another ruined monument.

The basalt image originally was stationed at Medinet-Habu, as part of the cultic celebration of the Pharaonic " Sed-Festival ," but was transferred at some point to Herakleopolis and the temple of Herishef.

During the Greek dominance in Egypt, note was made of a temple for Maahes that was an auxiliary facility to a large temple to Sekhmet at Taremu in the delta region ( likely a temple for Bast originally ), a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis, where by that time, an enclosure was provided to house lions.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

The new temple is in the form of a massive pyramid made from stone and transparisteel that is designed to fit into the new look of Coruscant, though internally it is identical to the design seen in Revenge of the Sith.

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

However the largest temple pyramid in the area is Sri Rangam in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu. The Thanjavur temple was built by Raja raja Chola in 11 century.

In the 15th century Java during late Majapahit period saw the revival of Austronesian indigenous elements as displayed by Sukuh temple that somewhat resemble Mesoamerican pyramid.

The most common temple architecture of Mesopotamia is the structure of sun-baked bricks called Ziggurat, having the form of a terraced step pyramid with flat upper terrace where shrine or temple stood

Ziggurats were huge pyramidal temple towers built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

Adjacent to the east side of the pyramid is a small mudbrick chapel which served as temple for the cult of the dead king.

Inside the temple, immediately against the pyramid wall is an offering hall where Jequier found a stone washbasin as well as stele or a false door of which only the foundations remain.

This form of radial pyramid temple was built by the Maya since the Late Preclassic with examples at many archaeological sites such as Tikal, Copán and Chichen Itza, among others.

The pyramid temple is situated at the north side of the pyramid, whereas in later pyramids it is on the east side.

The northern ( funerary / mortuary ) temple was on the north side of the pyramid and faced the north stars, which the king wished to join in eternity.

This temple appears on the north side of the pyramid throughout the Third Dynasty, as the king wishes to go north to become one of the eternal stars in the North Sky that never set.

Human figures known as “ atlantids ” served as main pillars in the temple that stood atop the main pyramid.

It was a common practice in Mesoamerica to build new temple pyramids atop older ones, but here a newer pyramid was built centered slightly to the east of the older pyramid, so that on the west side the temple atop the old pyramid is preserved, with the newer temple above it.