Sentences with phrase «sacred city of»

Famous as one of Sri Lanka's ancient capitals, the sacred city of Anuradhapura is popular for its preservation of ruins Read More...

Later, we will continue towards the Inti Punku or Puerta del Sol, after approximately 1 hour of walking on the brink of madness precipices in a landscape of a forest eyebrow we will see for the first time the sacred city of Machu picchu (2450 masl), we will descend in approximately 40 minutes, arriving by the upper area at the «House of the Guardians».

Northern Greece Kavala - beautiful port city Dion - sacred city of the Macedonians Pella Museum Philippi ruins Thessaloniki

Explore the sacred city of Anuradhapura — a World Heritage site — and discover ancient Buddhist monasteries.

It functioned primarily as a household sentinel, guarding homes of Tibetan nobility and Buddhist monasteries, particularly in or near the sacred city of Lhasa.

The Lhasa Apso is originally from the remote mountains of Tibet — particularly near the sacred city of Lhasa — where they were bred as sentinels and companions for temples and Buddhist monasteries, with special efforts taken to fix a type closely resembling a lion in color and shape.

They have never forgotten or forgiven the day in 1919 when General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire in the sacred city of Amritsar and Mrs. Gandhi may well have cause to rue the day she did the same.»

This tells of his birth and childhood and his life in the sacred city of Ayodhya, from which after a court intrigue he was banished to a forest.

One of Mottahedeh's characters, a devout Muslim who had studied many years in the sacred city of Qom, thought to resolve the dilemma of Islam's minority status by proposing to himself that there were in fact many different «Muslim» systems of thought in the world.

Explore four UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Sigiriya rock fortress, the Golden Temple of Dambulla, and the sacred cities of Kandy and Anuradhapura.

Enroute visit Kanchipuram that is known for its exquisite temples and is one of the seven sacred cities of India.

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The next year, it «overspent,» as Russell says, and signed Outkast, Vampire Weekend, and Jack White — and helped reunite the Strokes, one of New York City's most sacred bands.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pakistani city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

(CNN)- Heaven and Earth are said to meet atop Jerusalem's sacred mounts, but the city's stony streets have seen more than their share of violence.

The ancient city of Smyrna, located on the site of today's Izmir in Turkey, the gateway to Asia and stepping - stone to Europe, is sacred soil because of what happened there one Sunday, around 2:00 in the afternoon, in February of the year 155.

In New City, the magazine of the Focolare movement, Frank Johnson argues that «The divide between the sacred and the secular, the mystical and the material seems to be growing ever wider, at least in Western society.

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

The early Christian church building, the basilica, «did not separate Christians from the city, like a kind of sacred oasis, but rather brought the city and its concerns into the church.»

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Writing in the 19th Century, the evangelical missionary to the Holy Land, Rev John Nicolayson said the supposed miracle was evidence the city of Jerusalem desperately needed to hear the gospel: «If anything especial need be urged in favour of a missionary settlement in Jerusalem, this and other similar perversions and mockeries of the truth and of sacred things, furnish a most urgent plea.

Our purpose was to encourage New York City to give permanent recognition to its Muslim community by adding two holidays observed by Muslims to the public school calendar: Eid ul - Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and Eid Ul - Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.

Ancient cities, Weber notes, were socially structured by a separation between those who made a claim of descent from the founding clans (patricians) and those who could make no such claim (plebeians), a separation often spatially represented by the isolation of plebeians either at the foot of the sacred hill of the polis or in ghettos clustered at the walls.

Even worse, and more detrimental to the sacred character of the buildings, they will no longer be places for the faithful of the city.

CNN: As worshipers gather, Pakistani city endures second deadly blast in two days For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pakistani city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

A sense of the sacred, celebration of the liturgy, wonder and gratitude: these are the things in which we need to be re-educated not justfor the joy of living in an enchanted «Liturgical City» but because it is the only way to keep our education humane and our life civilised.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

He moves from the sacred, from magic, from religion, to the world of the city.

Jesus will take them once again to the Mount of Olives, that threshold between desert and city, sacred and profane, where the cloud of Divine Presence will absorb the risen Lord and leave his friends bereft once more.

«The centrality of Jerusalem to Judaism is so strong that even secular Jews express their devotion and attachment to the city and can not conceive of a modern State of Israel without it... For Jews Jerusalem is sacred simply because it exists... Though Jerusalem's sacred character goes back three millennia...».

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

Sacred marriage, usually completed by the birth of sacred child, was one of the most popular celebrations of Sumer's city states.

We did Cusco city walking tour, sacred valley of the inca and machu picchu.

Among the Buffalo Billion related questions were the review of Joe Percoco's disclosure form revealing outside income from Buffalo Billion vendors, details of Cuomo's last conversation with Percoco, the recent disclosure by Solar City of a reduction in the expected number of jobs, why the Public Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occurring.

Public housing parking lots occupy some of the city's most valuable real estate, but when it comes to addressing the city's housing crisis, preserving $ 5 monthly parking spots for NYCHA residents is considered sacred...

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

(CNN)- Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally - goers last week that two cities — Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas — are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam.

November 8 — December 6, 2017, February 26 — March 26, 2018, April 1 — 29, 2018, November 8 — December 6, 2018 This comprehensive and unique 200 hour Certification Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program in the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred river Ganga, surrounded by the foothills of the Himalayas will be organized by Nada Yoga School and Naturality.

November 8 — December 6, 2017, April 1 — 29, 2018 Nada Yoga School and Naturality offer a comprehensive and unique 200 hour Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Program in the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred river Ganga, surrounded by the foothills of the Himalayas.

The Roman Baths are a well - preserved Roman sacred site in the English city of Bath.

I don't know if it was the black eyes of the people watching me or the way everything looked dark and overused in that city, but I was ill at ease, as if Yoga's history has many places of obscurity and uncertainty due to its oral transmission of sacred texts and the secretive nature of its teachings.

To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.Watch the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.Witness the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia.Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copcities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copCities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy now.

a.m.: Excursion to the Incan City of Machupicchu; Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the  «Intiwatana» (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, in a remarkable urban harmony, showing the Incan engineeringÂ's high development level.

Explore world - class cities and the outback's sacred Red Center, the Great Barrier Reef, and some of the world's most beautiful beaches.

6:00 a.m.: Uphill hike to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

The holy city has been a sacred place for the religious and spiritual for innumerable years, but the beauty of this ancient city has so much to offer anyone looking to indulge themselves in history.

Our final train journey of the tour takes us to Varanasi, the Hindu's sacred city which attracts thousands of pilgrims a year, and is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

Pronounced ish - car - et, this former sacred Mayan City and Port is now a 250 - acre archaeological theme park located along a stretch of coastline.

Also known as the «Eternal City», Varanasi is a burst of colour right on the banks of the sacred River Ganges, and is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

Two of the most popular destinations in Israel for tourists are the sacred sites of Jerusalem and the thriving beach city of Tel Aviv, both centrally located in the center of the country to allow for easy accessibility to most landmarks.