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An example of a readable book [b]. Each of the nine countries covered by the library, as well as Reporters without Borders, has an individual wing, containing a number of articles, [1] available in English and the original language the article was written in. [2] The texts within the library are contained in in-game book items, which can be opened and placed on stands to be read by multiple ...
Jain Digambar Temple with Shikhar, Thari Bhabrian Lahore City. Jain Śvetāmbara Dada Wadi (Mini Temple), Guru Mangat in Lahore Cantt., footprints in stone. Jain Digambar Temple with Shikhar, Old Anarkali Jain Mandir Chawk: [1] This temple was destroyed in the riots of 1992. [2] Now an Islamic school is run in the former temple. [3]
Of these, the Bhand Dewal temple and Bagh Deval temple are particularly ancient and well-known. [2] In May 2017 an idol of Adinath ( Rishabhanatha ) was excavated near this temple. This idol is 1.16 metres (3 ft 10 in) in height, 37 centimetres (15 in) in width and 21 centimetres (8.3 in) in thickness.
The temple did not serve the same function as a modern church, since the altar stood under the open sky in the temenos or sacred precinct, often directly before the temple. Temples served as the location of a cult image and as a storage place or strong room for the treasury associated with the cult of the god in question, and as a place for ...
' Temple of Jupiter, the Best and Greatest '), was the most important temple in Ancient Rome, located on the Capitoline Hill. It was surrounded by the Area Capitolina, a precinct where numerous shrines, altars, statues and victory trophies were displayed. Traditionally dedicated in 509 BC, [1] the first building was the oldest large temple in Rome.
There may have been an earlier shrine , since the Jupiter cult is attested epigraphically. [60] Ovid places the temple's dedication on 27 June, but it is unclear whether this was the original date, [61] or the rededication after the restoration by Augustus. [a] Altar to Jupiter on the outskirts of legionary fortress, 2nd–3rd century AD.
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus) is an allegorical painting of about 1545 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino. It is now in the National Gallery, London. [1] Scholars do not know for certain what the painting depicts. [1]
A fanum is a plot of consecrated ground, a sanctuary, [225] and from that a temple or shrine built there. [226] A fanum may be a traditional sacred space such as the grove of Diana Nemorensis, or a sacred space or structure for non-Roman religions, such as an Iseum (temple of Isis) or Mithraeum.