Sentence examples for containing a statue of from inspiring English sources

"This is the goddess Durga," says Lance Corporal Prithvi, gesturing towards the shrine containing a statue of the Hindu deity.

The site where Judge William Cooper, James's father and the town's founder, built his family house, Otsego Hall, is now a park containing a statue of James.

In Centennial Park is a full-scale replica of the Parthenon (an Athenian temple), built for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897 and containing a statue of Athena 42 feet (13 metres) tall.

The upper level illustrates arupa-dhatu, "the realm of formlessness," or detachment from the physical world; there is little decoration, but lining the terraces are 72 bell-shaped stupas, many still containing a statue of the Buddha, partly visible through the perforated stonework.

Close by is the "Temple of Diana", with a small niche containing a statue of the goddess.

Once you look just enough like an ugly woman to raise doubts, balance a cowry-bedecked basket containing a statue of your goddess on your head and start acting really dirty in public.

(The porch contains a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals).

Of the three smaller temples along the east, the middle one contains a statue of Nandi, the bull of Shiva.

He studied archeology as an undergraduate and a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, whose museum contains a statue of Sitepehu.

He lived in a palace, and a visitor was amused to find it contained a statue of Philemon, an ancient writer famous for being money-grubbing.

The original British plinth was meant to have contained a statue of William IV but for a number of reasons remained empty for more than 150 years.