Kerrigan Michael
Kerrigan Michael - Amazing Temples Of The World - Hardcover
Kerrigan Michael - Amazing Temples Of The World - Hardcover
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Description: Temples have been places of worship a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt deriving from the cult of deities and residing places for gods and immortals. Today temple buildings remain lively focal points for the Jewish Buddhist Hindu Jain and Sikh religions. Organised by continent Amazing Temples of the World offers the reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present. Ornate or spartan immense or intimate from the Middle East to California this book features such impressive places of worship as the Mahabodi Temple India built in the location where Buddha is thought to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth century BCE Temple of Confucius in Qufu China the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu Simbel in southern Egypt the great carved monument to the Pharaoh Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar Punjab the spiritual home of the world's 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden London the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated with more than 180 photographs Amazing Temples of the World includes more than 150 places of worship from Ancient Greece and Rome through traditional synagogues to modern Buddhist Taoist and Sikh temples.
Title: Amazing Temples Of The World
Author(s): Kerrigan Michael
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781838860943
Pages: 224 Pages, 180 Photos; 180 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 10/14/2021
Category: Gift Books
Description: Temples have been places of worship a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt deriving from the cult of deities and residing places for gods and immortals. Today temple buildings remain lively focal points for the Jewish Buddhist Hindu Jain and Sikh religions. Organised by continent Amazing Temples of the World offers the reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present. Ornate or spartan immense or intimate from the Middle East to California this book features such impressive places of worship as the Mahabodi Temple India built in the location where Buddha is thought to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth century BCE Temple of Confucius in Qufu China the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu Simbel in southern Egypt the great carved monument to the Pharaoh Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar Punjab the spiritual home of the world's 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden London the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated with more than 180 photographs Amazing Temples of the World includes more than 150 places of worship from Ancient Greece and Rome through traditional synagogues to modern Buddhist Taoist and Sikh temples.
Title: Amazing Temples Of The World
Author(s): Kerrigan Michael
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781838860943
Pages: 224 Pages, 180 Photos; 180 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 10/14/2021
Category: Gift Books
