Greatest Places Built for God(s)
Religion has consistently been one of the greastest sources of
inspiration for some of the most spectacular and impressive man-made
sites in the world. Here are some of the finest, or at the very
least some of my favourites.
Mormon Temples, USA
Teotihuacan, Mexico
Uxmal, Mexico
Palenque, Mexico
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Tikal, Guatemala
Copan, Honduras
Minas Gerais baroque churches, Brazil
Pura Besakih, Indonesia
Prambanan, Indonesia
Borobudur, Indonesia
Bolkiah mosque, Brunei
Angkor, Cambodia
Sukhothai & Si Satchanalai, Thailand
Ayutthaya, Thailand
Lopburi, Thailand
Bagan, Myanmar
Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar
Luang Prabang temples, Laos
Kyoto temples, Japan
Nikko temples, Japan
Lungshan temple, Taiwan
Ellora Caves, India
Ajanta Caves, India
Hampi temples, India
Amritsar Golden Temple, India
Varanasi temples, India
Swayambunath, Nepal
Boedha, Nepal
St Peters, Vatican
Cordoba Mesquite, Spain
Amiens, Rouen, Reims, Chartes, Notre Dame-de-Paris cathedrals , France
Mont St-Michel, France
St Petersburg orthodox churches, Russia
Jerusalem Western wall/Dome of the rock, Israel/Palestine
Cairo mosques, Egypt
Leshan buddha, China
Mogao Caves, China
Samarkand Timurid monuments, Uzbekistan
Mashhad and Qom holy shrines, Iran
Esfahan Emam square, Iran
Persepolis, Iran
Hagia Sofia, Turkey
Sultanahmet and Suleimaniye mosques, Turkey
Bamiyan buddhas, Afghanistan
Shrine of Hazrat Ali, Afghanistan
Labrang Monastery, Tibet/China
Djenne, Mopti and Timbuktu mosques, Mali
Agadez great mosque, Niger
Lalibela, Ethiopia
Abu Simbel, Egypt
Luxor and Upper Nile temples, Egypt
Pyongyang (for deity Kim Il Sung), DPR Korea
Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Maha Bodhi temple, Bodhgaya, India
Brihadishwara temple, Tanjore, India
Mamallapuram rock temples, India
Konark temple, India
Khajuraho temples, India
Lhasa temples, Tibet/China
Shigatze monastery, Tibet/China
I have not yet visited the following
sites:
Mecca, Saudi Arabia