Sentences with phrase «pilgrimage site for»

In the downstairs gallery, Henry presents a group of mostly nocturnal landscape paintings that take into account how artists as different from one another as Frederic Remington and Ed Ruscha have influenced how we see the West, while Minimalists such as Donald Judd and Dan Flavin have transformed how visitors and locals experience it thanks to Marfa's Chinati Foundation, a pilgrimage site for international art tourists.

His desert headquarters has now been a pilgrimage site for generations of countercultural - leaning architects, and his signature philosophy of «arcology» — which fused architecture with ecology in an effort to secure an environmentally sustainable future for humankind — could hardly seem more prescient.

Only 200 meters above sea level begin an incredible adventure in the National Park of the Candelaria Caves National Park, one of the ways of Xibalba, here lies a mystical cave system are a sacred pilgrimage site for the descendants of the Maya, thought to be the entrance to the ham - pa where souls rest.

Before 1540 when Europeans immigrated to the Grand Canyon, this site was used as a habitat for Native Americans and later as a pilgrimage site for the Pueblo peoples.

It is a popular pilgrimage site for devotees of all four religions, and ascent is traditionally made at night so you reach the summit in time for sunrise.

The location has been a pilgrimage site for over 2,000 years, and most visitors there wore traditional white clothing as is customary when visiting sacred locations in the Buddhist world.

Finally, there is Kandy, a famous pilgrimage site for Buddhists, with beautifully carved houses, palaces and temple preserved for nearly 500 years.

The golden outline of Shwe Myitzu Pagoda — a pilgrimage site for local Buddhists, accessible only by boat during most of the year — shimmers on the horizon like a mirage.

And the sandwich shop has turned into a pilgrimage site for many peanut butter lovers all over the world.

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Though he seemed barely capable of affection for his family (his occasional devotions to Holly were not fully reciprocated), in late middle age he began an impassioned study of his genealogy, and the bare Pennsylvania church yards where his ancestors lay buried became sites of pilgrimage for him.

On the highlights of the programme for the pilgrimage, the minister disclosed that there would be daily prayers and meditation at important and significant sites mentioned in the Bible, boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, worship on MT Camel, the mountain of the prophet Elijah, renewal of wedding vows in the Church of the Miracle of Cana.

Sayeda Zeinab — the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad — is venerated by Shi'ites and her shrine is a site of mass pilgrimage for Shi'ites from across the world.

Trips to Pennsylvania drilling sites are emerging as political pilgrimages for New York gubernatorial candidates, as politicians and voters wrestle with fracking.

Some people will no doubt make a pilgrimage to the cavern, but for the next century at least, that will probably require some commitment, as the site is «as far as you can get from civilization within the continental United States,» Hillis says.

Andhra Pradesh has 200 + important Buddhist sites dating back to the 3rd Century B.C. and is an important center for pilgrimage and study.

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Uttarakhand is widely regarded as Dev Bhumi or the Land of Gods for hosting a. Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrimage site in Uttarakhand, is known as the Yoga.

Tommy and Greg's friendship begins at an acting class in San Francisco and eventually sends them on a pilgrimage to the site of James Dean's fatal car crash and later, to L.A., where they live for a while as roommates at Tommy's pied - à - terre.

This lesson introduces students to three popular pilgrimage sites in India for the three great Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

This lesson looks at Lourdes as a site of pilgrimage for Christians.

There are a number of companies that conduct tours of the site and arrange travel packages for pilgrims seeking to experience, in the words of one Lourdes historian, «one of the most famous pilgrimage sites in the Christian world.»

Built between 1997 and 2008 in a relatively remote part of China's HenanProvince (a common site for Buddhist pilgrimages) the statue stands 420 feet tall (502 if you count the base, which Tilly doesn't).

The Western Wall is an important site for those of Jewish faith and has been a site for Jewish prayer and pilgrimage for centuries.

On other days we walked to burial sites which date back to almost 3,000 BC, walked a small section of the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, huddled in a shepherd's log - store for lunch, laughed heartily with Basque locals as if they were close friends and listened to Basque ballads of how life passes us by.

The deer park is one of four holy Buddhist sites sanctioned by the Buddha himself for pilgrimage.

Get ready for a stout - steeped, Toucan - themed experience during your overnight stay at this beer - lover's pilgrimage site, the Guinness Storehouse in the heart of Dublin.

There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal — a c. 700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol — another city except from c. 500 AD and situated in Belize Chichén Itzá — a monument and center for pilgrimage located in Mexico Tulum — a coastal Mayan site present until c. 1200 AD Kabah — a ruin with elaborate and intricate carvings on the wall which was used from c. 800 AD to c. 900 AD Palenque — another site located in Mexico thought to be magical, present from c. 600 AD to c. 700 AD Coba — a partially excavated network of roads and pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico Uxmal — the most extravagant and complex of all eight Mayan sites, built shortly before c. 1000 AD.

Later, you head to the pilgrimage site of Rocamadour, named for St Amadour, a devout hermit whose uncorrupted body was discovered in a cave in 1166.

The destination is also a gateway for many other «must - sees» in the South of France including the majestic Pyrenees, fortified Carcassonne, Catalan Perpignan, historic Montpellier and the pilgrimage site at Lourdes.

I love the idea of a pilgrimage site slowly developing its facilities for people to visit, to live there for a while and to leave their mark — little churches, walls of votive offerings, town squares, guest houses, fountains, murals, presumably coffee shops.

The coveted Photographer of the Year title was presented to British artist Alys Tomlinson for her series Ex-Voto, a personal project that encompasses formal portraiture, large format landscape and small, detailed still - life images of the «ex-votos» (offerings of religious devotion) found at pilgrimage sites of Lourdes, Ballyvourney (Ireland) and Grabarka (Poland).

These vials are used as vessels for holy water, which Hiller collects by going on pilgrimages to holy springs and sites around the world.

For this exhibition, Giorno's personal shrine from his home, which is decorated with intricate brocade from the sacred pilgrimage site of Benaras in India, has been relocated to the gallery space.

While her earlier work looked at art museums as places for worship or contemplation — in the vein of cathedrals or pilgrimage sites — and artworks as objects of faith, her recent works, such as Deposit III (2015), give more importance to painting as an actual object in its own right: «It allowed me to leave bi-dimensionality, unhang [painting] from the wall and naturally add other supports of images (video, mirrors, printed matter, found paintings) and link them to a same genealogy.»

Lawrence Bradshaw's Karl Marx Memorial (1956), commissioned by the British Communist Party to decorate Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery, north London, became a site for political pilgrimage, vandalism and even bomb attacks.

But for anyone who wants to ask the questions, Dia: Beacon, the Dia Art Foundation's sprawling upstate outpost, has been an essential Ryman pilgrimage site since it opened in 2003, with rooms full of natural light dedicated to his mostly white, mostly square minimalist works.

«Lenden» as it's known has become a historic site of pilgrimage for wealthy Arabs seeking the forbidden fruits of sex, drugs and alcohol.