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The Hero City monument (officially, the Obelisk in honor of the hero city of Kyiv, Ukrainian: Обеліск на честь міста-героя Києва) is a World War II memorial in Halytska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a 30 m-tall (98 ft) obelisk that was erected in 1982, during the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
For Lists of obelisks, see: List of Egyptian obelisks; List of modern obelisks; List of obelisks in Rome This page was last edited on 21 ...
An obelisk-shape structure built to commemorate the Organisation of Islamic Conference. Luxor Hotel: Las Vegas, Nevada: United States: The obelisk stands in front of the hotel, a pyramid-shaped hotel along The Strip: Endicott, Triple Cities, New York: United States: 1975
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Obelisks by the country in which they are currently located. Tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monuments, which end in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
Obelisks were prominent in the architecture of the ancient Egyptians, and played a vital role in their religion placing them in pairs at the entrance of the temples.The word "obelisk" as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveler, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects.
Renowned obelisk "The Center of Asia" (2014) Kyzyl claims to be located exactly in the geographical center of Asia. This claim is disputed. [e] Nevertheless, locals constructed a monument labelled "Center of Asia" in Tuvan, Russian, and English. Tos-Bulak is an area of open fields and mineral springs which lies immediately south of Kyzyl.
After Ukraine declared independence in the early 1990s, the church was restored. [4] The church contains the sarcophagus of the city's founder Stanisław Żółkiewski. The town center of Zhovkva was declared a heritage site in 1994, and restoration work is now under way. [ 4 ]