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Lal Mahal Lal Mahal Pune India		02/22/2006	188

Omkareshwar Temple Omkareshwar Temple. A famous shiva temple in Pune INDIA		02/22/2006	244

First Baptist Church First Baptist Church Springdale		02/05/2006	136

First Baptist Church First Baptist Church Siloam Springs		02/05/2006	125

Belgium - Liege - Cathedral The 90m/295ft-high tower has a carillon from the old cathedral which plays the Walloon hymn "Ii Chant dès Wallons". The original Romanesque church was destroyed at the beginning of the 13th C. and replaced by the early Gothic church of 1232-1289, which later underwent further expansion		02/03/2006	136

St. Sofia church in Sofia St. Sofia church in Sofia. The capitals name came from this church. The church was build between 527 and 565. It's the oldest eastern-orthodox church in Sofia		02/02/2006	214

Mole Antonelliana major architectural symbol of the city of Turin (Italy)		01/31/2006	123

Blitzed Coventry Cathedral Whats left of the Coventry Cathedral after the Blitz in WW2. The new Cathedral is next to it.		01/31/2006	164

Sicily - Noto Cathedral Cathedral of the Baroque city of Noto		01/31/2006	140

Missions of San Antonio, Texas These are five Spanish missions set up in the early 1700's in what is now San Antonio, Texas. The most famous of these is The Alamo. The other four are part of a national park		01/30/2006	222

St. Pauls Cathedral - with overlay St. Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was completed in 1708. Its famous dome rises 365 feet to the cross at its summit, i.e. one foot for each day of the year.		01/30/2006	269

Westminster Abbey - with overlay Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs.		01/30/2006	352

Bangor Abbey This is a wonderful ancient Abbey,Established by Saint Comghall in 558, was featured in the Mappa Mundi the first map of the world		01/26/2006	166

St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, IRELAND St Patricks Cathedral is the largest church in Ireland. A wooden church was built on the present site in the V th century when Ireland's patron saint, St Patrick, baptised his first Christian converts at a well on the site. The present church dates from the XII th century.		01/25/2006	242

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, IRELAND Viking Dublin's cathedral was built about 1038, gaining its present shape from 1172 in the new cathedral of Archbishop Laurence O'Toole and the Norman knight Richard de Clare. There have been major restorations of the cathedral in 1358, 1562, 1829-31, 1871-8 when Henry Roe gave £230,000 (£23m today!) to save it, and from 1980-2.A donation is requested of visitors visiting the cathedral, often t...		01/25/2006	201

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - Sofia, Bulgaria One of the finest examples of 20th-century architecture in Sofia and one of the symbols of the city, the magnificent Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built between 1882 and 1912 to honour the Russian soldiers who died fighting to liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in the war of 1878 under Tsar Alexander II. The famous church-monument is situated on the tree-lined square of the same name, which a...		01/16/2006	376

Boston Avenue United Methodist Church From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Avenue_Methodist_Church - "Boston Avenue Methodist Church, located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and completed in 1929, is considered by many to be the finest example of ecclesiastical Art Deco architecture in the United States."		01/11/2006	183

RAJ GHAT Delhi Raj Ghat, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi is a simple black marble platform that marks the spot of his cremation on 31 January 1948		01/06/2006	249

JAMA MASJID Delhi Jama Masjid, the great mosque of friday in Old Delhi. Built from 1644 to 1658.		01/06/2006	319

Wat Phra Narng SarngPhuket, THAILAND Wat Phra Narng Sarng is Phukets oldest temple (app.250 years). The grounds of this historic temple are where the Battle of Thalang took place in 1785. Inside are three very old statues wrought in tin of the Buddha; they are the largest in the world and date from a time when tin was regarded as a semi-precious metal.		01/05/2006	190

Wat Chalong, Phuket, THAILAND Wat Chalong is Phuket’s most important Buddhist temple and is the biggest and most ornate of Phuket’s 29 Buddhist monasteries. The architecture is typical of wats found throughout Thailand. Wat Chalong is associated with the revered monks, Luang Pho Chaem and Luang Pho Chuang, both of whom were famous for there work in herbal medicine and tending to the injured.		01/05/2006	392

Parasnathji Parasnath Hill in Hazaribagh district is held to be the most sacred spot of the Jains all over India. Parasnath Hill, about 4481 feet high, is situated along the Grand Trunk road about 200 miles from Calcutta. The Eastern Railway, (Grand Chord Line) runs by Parasnath Hill and there are two Railway stations close by, namely, Parasnath Road and Isri. The summit of Parasnath Hill can be reached ei...		12/30/2005	678

The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist in Wroclaw, in Poland The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist in Wroclaw, in Poland.		12/28/2005	214

S.Aurea Church in ostia antica		12/27/2005	114

church and old Hermitage in Corsica Church and Hermitage _La trinité near Bonifacio Corsica		12/26/2005	137