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El yacimiento arqueológico de Jerash es uno de los mejor conservados de Proximo Oriente. Uno de sus puntos principales es la plaza Oval, rodeada por una gran columnata.

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Borobudur, or Barabudur (Indonesian: Candi Borobudur, Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦣꦶꦧꦫꦧꦸꦣꦸꦂ, translit. Candhi Barabudhur) is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, and the world's largest Buddhist temple. The temple consists of nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome. It is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The central dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a perforated stupa.

-Winston Churchill.

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This is the Lotus temple, one of the landmark buildings of New Delhi, India. It is a Baha’i House of Worship completed in 1986. Notable for its flowerlike shape, it serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent and has become a prominent attraction in the city. The Lotus Temple has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.

Like all other Baha’i Houses of Worship, the Lotus Temple is open to all regardless of religion, or any other distinction, as emphasized in Baha’i texts. The Baha’i laws emphasize that the spirit of the House of Worship be that it is a gathering place where people of all religions may worship God without denominational restrictions. The Baha’i laws also stipulate that only the holy scriptures of the Baha’i Faith and other religions can be read or chanted inside in any language; while readings and prayers can be set to music by choirs, no musical instruments can be played inside. Furthermore no sermons can be delivered, and there can be no ritualistic ceremonies practiced.

The architect was an Iranian, who now lives in Canada, named Fariborz Sahba. He was approached in 1976 to design it and later oversaw its construction. The structural design was undertaken by the UK firm Flint and Neill. The major part of the funds needed to buy this land was donated by Ardishír Rustampúr of Hyderabad, who gave his entire life savings for this purpose in 1953. A portion of construction budget was saved and used to build a greenhouse to study indigenous plants and flowers that would be appropriate for use on the site.

I first visited this temple in 2005 and was fascinated by both the faith and the incredible simplicity of this building and the rituals associated by them. Finally I had a chance to visit the building and get a shot without the tourists.

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A las afueras de la ciudad de Chang Rai se encuentra el transgresor Wat Rong Khun, más conocido como Templo Blanco. Es obra del arquitecto tailandés Chalermchai Kositpipat, quien en 1997 inició su construcción. En este tiempo sólo ha podido terminar uno de los innumerables templos que componen el conjunto. En su interior, que no se puede fotografiar, en lugar de las típicas escenas de la vida de Buda el artista ha pintado inusuales imágenes como por ejemplo a Keanu Reeves en su papel en Matrix. Un lugar insólito que no deja indiferente.

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Step Pyramid Saqqara, Cairo

Brihadisvara Temple, Gangai Konda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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Templo de Isis, de época ptolemaica, antiguamente emplazado en la isla de Filé pero que tuvo que ser trasladado junto con las otras construcciones de la isla antes de la construcción de la presa de Asuan. Junto con otros monumentos nubios es Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1979.

Brihadisvara Temple, Gangai Konda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

Brihadisvara Temple, Gangai Konda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

Philae Island ASwan, Egypt

HDR, Brihadisvara Temple, Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

Puesta de sol en el Templo Blanco cuya explicación está en las anteriores fotos.

Brihadisvara Temple, Gangai Konda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

HDR, Main Hall (本堂), Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺), Kyoto, Japan

A recent trip to Thailand, and this was one place I really looked forward to visiting. It attracts masses of tourists, so I went at 6 am after having been informed that you can enter that early. This was not the case, so the image I was hoping for, of the temple reflected in the pond was not possible. However, it did mean no one else could enter so I was able to get a photo without other people. Wat Rong Khun (Thai: วัดร่องขุ่น); White Temple, is a contemporary, unconventional, privately owned, art exhibit in the style of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is owned by Chalermchai Kositpipat, who designed, constructed, and opened it to visitors in 1997 (Wikipedia).

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Brihadisvara Temple, Gangai Konda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India