A Cyclones fan since 2001, Mr. Garrett was one of dozens of fans who said KeySpan Park helped them imagine the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, that intimate, lost temple of baseball.
However, most of the events taking place at Hack Temple will remain intimate, as San Francisco has restrictions on how many people can be present at different events.
Many Thais prefer the cozy atmosphere of small community temples to a less intimate massive one.
The more intimate shots, whether of samurai or buddhist temple decorations, show a remarkable maturity of perspective, and remain vibrant a century and a half after their creation.
With its rose-colored sandstone, intimate scale and dazzling decoration, Banteay Srei is the favorite temple of most visitors -- and we agreed.
She added: "It's so intimate and small and the opposite of the large, impersonal temples that a lot of us grew up with.
As the Monuments Fund toils away on its three temples, a Chinese government team is rebuilding the intimate Chau Sey Tevoda and an Italian team stabilizes the brick towers of the ninth-century Pre Rup.
Cantor Jonathan Gordon, who oversees the building's transformation six times a year, said the temple becomes "the Greenwich Village coffeehouse you always wished for -- not smoky but really intimate".
An intimate connection existed in ancient India between bell sound and mystic experience, and today a handbell is still rung in temple ceremonies in India and other areas of Buddhist influence.
