Sacred Places
219 places found
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BuddhismWat Suthat
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple in Bangkok's inner Rattanakosin quarter, famed for its towering Giant Swing and for the longest ordination hall in Thailand.
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BuddhismWat Suwan Dararam
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple in the old capital of Ayutthaya in central Thailand, holding a quiet but enduring place within the kingdom's network of officially recognised royal monasteries.
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BuddhismWat Thepthidaram
, Thailand
A third-grade royal Buddhist temple in Bangkok founded by King Rama III in honour of his eldest daughter, distinguished by its 52 statues of bhikkhuni and its quiet poetic heritage.
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BuddhismWat Traimit
, Thailand
A Theravada Buddhist temple in Bangkok's Chinatown best known for the Golden Buddha, a 5.5-tonne solid-gold Sukhothai-era statue hidden for centuries beneath a layer of plaster.
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BuddhismWat Yai Chai Mongkhon
, Thailand
A historic Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya remembered for the tallest chedi in the city, raised by King Naresuan the Great to mark his victory over Burmese forces in 1592.
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BuddhismWat Yansangwararam
, Thailand
A vast royal Buddhist complex in Chonburi Province, raised in 1976 by the 19th Supreme Patriarch as a centre for samatha and vipassana practice and crowned by a replica of the Mahabodhi Temple.
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TaoismWhite Cloud Temple
, People's Republic of China
An ancient Quanzhen Taoist temple and monastery in Beijing, known as 'The First Temple under Heaven' and now the seat of the Chinese Taoist Association.
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TaoismWong Tai Sin Temple
, People's Republic of China
A name shared by several Taoist temples in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Markham — each dedicated to the deity Wong Tai Sin and the practice of healing and divination.
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ChristianityWurzburg Cathedral
, Germany
A Roman Catholic cathedral in Bavaria dedicated to Saint Kilian, ranked among Germany's largest Romanesque churches and a masterpiece of architecture from the Salian era.
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TaoismXuankong Temple
, People's Republic of China
A 1,500-year-old Chinese temple suspended on the face of a Shanxi cliff, uniting Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian devotion within a single precipitous sanctuary.
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TaoismXuanmiao Temple
, People's Republic of China
A prominent Taoist temple at the heart of old Suzhou, founded in the third century and still a serene presence within the city's busiest pedestrian quarter.
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JudaismYeshua Tova Synagogue
, Romania
Bucharest's oldest synagogue, a Hasidic Jewish house of prayer raised in 1827 in the Moorish Revival style near Piața Amzei in the heart of the Romanian capital.
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