Since 1997, archaeologists from the Field Museum in Chicago and the University of Florida, Gainesville, have uncovered meeting halls, temples, and housing at Cerro Baúl, a settlement occupied by the pre-Incan Wari people between 600 and 1000 C.E.
The Court Architect (Jiangzuo dajiang 將作少府) was in charge of the construction, maintenance, and repair of imperial palace halls, government halls, temples, grave tumuli, buildings in funerary parks, roads leading out of the capital, and flood control works.
He was a member of his local church, a Prince Hall Masonic Temple and the Washington chapter of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Association until his death.
Hong Kong's first heritage trail, the Ping Shan, includes the territory's oldest pagoda, a magnificent ancestral hall and temples.
As we pass through the nunnery's immaculate modern classrooms, library, sleeping quarters, dining hall, and temples, young nuns gently bow and smile greetings.
Nevertheless, the halls and temples of the Forum were assiduously rebuilt, ever grander, and more were added.
This is one reason the Forbidden City, a walled complex of apartments, offices, reception halls and temples in Beijing, the imperial capital, looked the way it did.
Although later buildings perpetuated the name and roughly the position of the first halls and temples, their ruins do not necessarily stand where earlier buildings stood, and many details of the earlier Forum are still the subject of scholarly speculation.
So many people do it, after all, and seem to enjoy it and remember it fondly afterwards; it would be a myopic culture that sought to portray university halls as temples of failure.
But that destruction has largely been forgotten as tourists flock to the newly renovated pagoda complex, where elaborate halls and temples venerate the Buddha.
Sunday has been designated an official day of prayer and reflection and President Jacob Zuma urged South Africans to to go to stadiums, halls, churches, temples or synagogues.
