Sentences with phrase «century temple»

He has translated the readymade into a new artistic language, fusing neolithic pottery, fourteenth - century doors and seventeenth - century temple beams into surprising, at times shocking sculptures.

As the name suggests its main attractions are the hundreds of monkeys that inhabit both the trees and the 17th Century temple, Pura Bukit Sari, found in the heart of the forest.

Located across the river from Wat Pho and the Grand Palace, Wat Arun is 17th century temple that overlooks the Chao Phraya River.

Experience the sunset beyond the black lava towers of the sacred 16th century temple.

For special occasions, the 10th - century temple of Prasat Kravan, beautifully lit up, plays host to alfresco banquets.

The 11th century temple is an easy stopover on your tours to Candidasa and the island's east.

Leaving from Amankora Thimphu, the half - day hike to this monastic village takes in the mysterious 12th - century temple and can include lunch with the monks

Enter through the enormous carved doors, where you're welcomed by an enormous garuda from Koh Ker, a 10th century temple complex.

This 11th century temple faces a separate large communal hall from where most visitors start their visit.

As a beautiful port city on the north coast of Java, Semarang has historical landmark that features Dutch colonial architecture, including the landmark Lawang Sewu and also a 15th - century temple, Sam Poo Kong.

Early 19th century the temple complexes got rediscovered by the British and today you can visit a group of temples and two or three single chapels as that's all that remains.

However, archaeologists realized in 1978 that Franciscan monks had corrupted the name from «Lam «an / ayin» to «Lamanai,» and that adding the correct suffix of «ayin» changed the meaning of the name to submerged crocodile, a conclusion supported by the large number of crocodile representations found at Lamanai, including figurines, pottery decorations and the headdress of a 13 foot limestone mask found on a 6th century temple platform.

Continue to Gunung Kawi, an 11th - century temple complex surrounded by terraced rice fields.

Battambang is home to a city center where 800 or so building have been preserved from its Colonial history and beyond, Wat Ek Phnom — an 11th - century temple situated just north of the city, and an artistic history rivaling any other in the country.

Dating back to 10th century this temple marks an important transition.

The Song of Moses or Miriam (15: 1 - 18) has usually been taken as a later expansion of the original, very ancient two lines attributed to Miriam in 15: 21, although some have more conservatively maintained the originality and antiquity of the long poem.11 In any case, we affirm its relative antiquity, subject of course to modification (for example, to accommodate the reference to the tenth - century temple in Jerusalem, vv.

Angkor Wat is actually just one of the 12th century temples that make up this huge and mind - blowing complex.

Ancient Bagan nestles on a loop of the Irrawaddy, tamarind tree plains with over two thousand 11th - 13th century temples, some with frescoes and statuary, many rarely visited, collectively magnificent.

One sees these carved into the stone walls of the ancient 9th century temples in Borobudur, Yogyakarta, preaching the story of Buddha to the initiates.

Wang will trace the journeys of Chinese Buddhist sculptures from early 20th - century temples to their installations in American art museums.

Not exact matches

The temples, built between the 9th and 15th centuries, combine both Hindu and Buddhist influences, and collectively are the oldest religious monument in the world.

The final monument groupings in the Kathmanu Valley World Heritage property are the famous Pashupatinath Temple, built in the fifth century, and the Changu Narayan, a double - roofed temple to Vishnu.

Built atop a Mayan temple, in Merida you'll find centuries - old colonial homes, churches, and grand buildings.

In an act that Harrsion described as «spiritual genocide», the group claimed that early church leaders took hold of temple grounds and turned them into churches during the Christiansation of England starting as early as the 7th century.

Indeed, for a first - century audience, more attuned to the «differential charge» locations within Greco - Roman cities could possess, such temples would have appeared all the more impressive, occupying, as they did, crucial sites in their symbolic geography (in Athens, for example, the cult temple was constructed in the Acropolis, near the Parthenon, in the historic and religious heart of the city).

Corinth was not destroyed because Sodom was supposed to serve as the example, it having been destroyed centuries before the Greek temple prost / itution in Corinth.

It did not begin to be celebrated until the mid second century BC when some Jewish rebels defeated their Roman captors and set out rededicate the temple to God.

It appears certain that such prophets were attached to the temple in Jerusalem and that some time before the work of the Chronicler (Ezra - Nehemiah, I and II Chronicles in the fourth or third century B.C.) the temple prophets became temple singers and merged with the other Levitical orders.8

Similarly the Book of Daniel, written in the second century B.C., represents a type of Judaism in which new apocalyptic hopes were blended with the old devotion to temple and sacrifice.

We are likewise learning more about first century religion in Palestine — as, for example, about the place of synagogue, Torah, temple and sacrifice; the meaning of the terms «Pharisee,» «Essene,» «Sadducee,» «apocalyptist»; the nature of Judaism and of rabbinic teaching.

I find no «clear» single eschatological narrative in scripture that supports the end time fantasies about some supposed Lord Antichrist sitting in the (non existent) temple in Jerusalem circa 21st Century.

By the first century, Baal is a distant memory, but Jesus immediately heads to Herod's temple, which he condemns as a den of thieves, repeating the words of Jeremiah against the first temple.

But in the Judaism of the first century, although the primitive rite of animal sacrifice lingered on (until the temple was destroyed in AD.

The Jews have not had a priesthood or a temple since the First Century.

the priesthood ended at the destruction of the temple, the old testament ended, and the new testament began in the first century, we no longer have a priesthood after the destruction of the temple, these people are liveing two thousand years in the past,

You see this in the centuries - old temples and samurai tales, the highly sought - after ski resorts and their post-workout natural hot spring soaking tubs.

Demetrius the 1st, the nephew of Antiochus the 5th, in 161bce, put on a pig as a sacrifice, after destroying the Solomon temple, worshiping sun - gods, soon after chirstianity began of the 1st, and 2nd centuries.

(Job 23:8 f.) The problem also arises in the life of the nation, most acutely in the sixth century ac when all the characteristic marks of God's presence and favor have been removed; king, temple and land have all been taken away.

Six centuries earlier, Jeremiah had stood in the first temple Solomon built on this same site and declared its doom.

They are living fine, with there churches / temples for centuries.

When they were driven out from synagogue and temple, they faced a disruption in their religious thought and practise comparable with the shock of the Exile to the Jews over six centuries before.

In the seventh century, Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and left the city and temple a «haunt of jackals.»

He told the men who's job for centuries had been to take your impure money, and for a small fee, give you back pure money that could then be donated to temple.

Baal - zephon is known to be the name of a Canaanite deity to whom a temple once stood in Tahpanhes, to which city Jeremiah was taken in the sixth century (Jer.

You can imagine the shock on the faces of simple faithful people trying to follow age old rules pertaining to what you do when you go to the one temple allowed in ancient Israel in those few centuries before Hadrien destroyed ancient Israel.

Researchers told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet that they had uncovered an intact temple and burial grounds below St Nicholas church in the province of Antalya, where the 4th century Christian saint is believed to have been born.

It is certain that the form of Solomon's temple (tenth century) influenced the account.

The very fact that, a) Jesus left NOTHING behind, no writings, no physical evidence, nothing written by any first century historian, and b) there were no less than 12 deities prior to Jesus throughout the world who were born of a virgin, taught at the temple when young, preached, healed, fed the hungry, were killed and rose from the dead.

The Samaritans had their own temple, and after its destruction, in the second century B.C., their place of worship was on Mount Gerizim.

Accompanying the exposition are a picture and paragraph devoted to architecture (Solomon's Temple), a lithograph of the Jerusalem temple, a pictorial representation of Solomon and Queen Sheba from Ethiopia, a painting by Cornelis de Vos of Solomon offering sacrifices to idols, a map of the divided kingdoms, a contemporary Chinese painting of Elijah, another painting of Elijah by Peter Paul Rubens, a 17th - century needlepoint rendition of Jezebel's death, a sidebar devoted to the term «Jezebel,» and a picture of a panel showing King Jehu offering tribute to the Assyrians.