Just when you may have thought that archaeologists have discovered all there is to find in Egypt, they uncover something new.

There are two types of temples. One is where the moola-virat is ‘swayambhu’, self-formed and self-revealed. The second type of temple is where the vigraha is carved manually and ‘prana pratishta’ is ...

For much of LDS Church history, meetinghouses were the center of religious life. Temples have largely overtaken that role.

This is probably one of the most recognised architectural structures in the country. The famous Kailasa Temple is carved entirely out of a single basalt rock. It is one of the most visited and ...

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There are some 900 traditional Buddhist temples in South Korea – and around 20,000 in total. A visit to any of these local places of worship – many of them centuries old — can be a humbling, calming ...