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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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 | This mosque is at the famous Najaf cemetery where all Shi'a desire to be buried. Scene of a horrific car bombing during US occupation of 2003-? Many Shi'a make a pilgrimage to this mosque. |  | 08/02/2005 | 649 | 
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 | The Great Ziggurat was built around 2100 BC by Ur-Nammu, the Sumerian King of Ur. It served as a place of worship, dedicated to the moon god Nanna. Southeast of the Ziggurat are the Royal Tombs. Ur-Nammu is the creator of the oldest known law code, predating Hammurabi by 300 years. |  | 08/02/2005 | 658 |
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 | Seen as a whole, the building is not one mass. It does not convey the feeling of some singular thing, welded together to give the impression of a gigantic powerful organism. The Khulafa Mosque is a composed assembly of parts. | | 08/02/2005 | 192 |
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 | Abd Al-Kadir Al-Gailani Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
Although built some 700 hundred years ago by Abu Said Al-Mubarak Bin Ali Al-Mukharrami, this school is famous for being the living and teaching place of his pupil, Sheikh Abd Al-Kadir Al-Gailani. The Sufi Sheikh was later burried at this site in 1165. The Ottoman Sultan, Sulaiman the Magnificent, laid the foundation plans for much of ... | | 08/02/2005 | 260 |
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 | The Basilica of the Sacré Cœur (Sacred Heart) is a Parisian Roman Catholic church and landmark, crowning the butte Montmartre ('Montmartre hill'), the highest point in Paris.
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 | residence of the dalai lama |  | 08/01/2005 | 353 |
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 | Mosque in Abu Dhabi | | 08/01/2005 | 1,420 |
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 | The Grand Mosque of Mali's capitol city. US Embassy is two blocks due west. To the south is the Niger River, which will enter the Atlantic ocean in Nigeria, 1100 mile southeast. | | 08/01/2005 | 296 |
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 | Reflecting the characteristics of Abassid art, This beautiful mosque is featured on the Egyptian five pound note. It is the oldest preserved mosque in Egypt. | | 07/31/2005 | 511 |
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 | The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (also known as The Duomo) is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence. |  | 07/31/2005 | 516 |
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 | The Oral Roberts Prayer Tower in Tulsa is a powerful magnet for those seeking spiritual shock therapy -- or fundamentalist fun. This "20th Century Cross", with a stylized crown of thorns and an outer skeleton of plastic PVC pipes (you can still see the printed specs scrawled on them), offers visitors a heavenly view of Oral Roberts University.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/ok.ht... | | 07/31/2005 | 208 |
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 | The Cathedral of the Archbishops of Mainz
Additional Info from Piranha:
From Wikipedia: Mainz Cathedral, formally known in English as St. Martin Cathedral; in German Mainzer Dom, is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany. Its red-sandstone, six-towered body commands prominence in the skyline of Mainz.
This Roman Catholic cathedra... | | 07/30/2005 | 305 |
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 | "The City of the Gods," located in San Juan Teotihuacán municipality, in the State of México, Mexico, approximately 40 km (about 25 miles) northeast of Mexico City.
Editor's note: That huge pyramid is the Pyramid of the Sun, the largest stone pyramid in all of Precolumbian America. It currently measures 738 ft. on each side and is about 213 ft. tall. However, it was once even la... | | 07/30/2005 | 2,103 |
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 | El Escorial is an immense palace, monastery, museum, and library complex located at San Lorenzo de El Escorial (also San Lorenzo del Escorial), a town 45 kilometres (28 miles) northwest of Madrid.
The facade of the chapel, in the Baroque style of Jesuit churches, is integrated with the palatial facade. Right at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range, the complex was... | | 07/29/2005 | 551 |
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 | Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints Freiberg/Germany | | 07/29/2005 | 362 |
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 | The sanctuary or relic of the Islam.
Additional information from: scouting_gerbil
This is the Great Mosque in the Islamic Holy City of Makkah. Every year thousands of Hajjis (Muslim pilgrims) gather here to worship Allah on the Hajj (pilgrimage). The box in the centre is the Kaaba, a shrine built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ishmael. Although it is white here, every year in January the Ka... | | 07/29/2005 | 1,446 |
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 | Ruins of a huge mosque 2500 years old, with spiral tower famous to artists and architects. Located approx. 80 miles northwest of Baghdad. See novel "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara.
Editor's note/additional info from user "Watts": This is the Great Mosque of Samarra and the famous Malwiya spiral minaret. The mosque was designed to seat 80,000 people and at 409,000 square f... | | 07/25/2005 | 440 |
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 | Tomb of the prophet Mohammed, his daughter, Fatima and the caliph, Omar. Usually visited as part a pilgrimage to Mecca (or hajj).
Masjid al-Nabawi or Mosque of the Prophet is the second holiest mosque in the Islamic world. The original mosque was built by Muhammad (SAAW). In the middle of the mosque is the shrine of the Prophet Muhammad(SAAW), known as Gumbad-e-Khizra or Dome of the Pro... | | 07/25/2005 | 1,130 |
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 | The Haram Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram, or The Sacred Mosque) is considered by Muslims to be the holiest place on Earth. It is the focal point of the hajj pilgrimage required of all able-bodied Muslims.
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Masjid_al-Haram |  | 07/24/2005 | 423 |
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 | The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the seat of the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and is located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, between W. 110th Street (Cathedral Parkway) and W. 113th Street in Manhattan.
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine |  | 07/24/2005 | 296 |
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 | The lotus temple of the Bahaii faith in New Delhi, India. | | 07/21/2005 | 1,024 |
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 | George Washington Masonic Temple located in Alexandria, Virginia. | | 07/21/2005 | 773 |
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 | This is the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis, overlooking Athens | | 07/20/2005 | 2,024 |
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 | Church of Scientology main religious retreat and related properties. | | 07/19/2005 | 544 |
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