Sentence examples for splendid temple from inspiring English sources

A quote from the diary of Mayor Philip Hone, in 1846, describing the church as a "splendid temple".

Every year, two Japanese friends and I travel to Koya-san to visit its splendid temple architecture and pay our respects to Kukai, known posthumously as Kobo Daishi — the great teacher.

There is Miss Annie de Montford, born Annie Riley, a mill worker turned mesmerist, who claimed her mind "ruled the world" even after a New England newspaper called her act "a splendid temple of humbug".

Four others were donated to the countries that contributed to the rescue effort, including the splendid Temple of Dendur, now reconstructed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Built in the 15th century, Hampi was crammed with splendid temples and mosques, mighty stables for elephants, markets for diamond traders and a granite chariot.

A Unesco World Heritage site at the heart of a huge national park, the remains of this 2,500-year-old Roman city form one of Europe's greatest, yet least visited archaeological sites, with a splendid Greco-Roman temple.

"The temples of the City and Venus rise to the same high top and incense is burned to the pair of goddesses together". The largest and most splendid of Rome's temples, the Temple of Venus and Rome was designed by Hadrian, himself.

Cities still tend to have bigger and more splendid churches, mosques and temples than do mere towns and villages.

The Rashtrakuta contributions to art and architecture are reflected in the splendid rock-cut cave temples at Ellora and Elephanta, areas also occupied by Jain monks, located in present day Maharashtra.

He did, however, present many columns and some golden cows for a new and splendid rebuilding of the Artemiseum (Temple of Artemis).

It showed that the ancient Khmer capital, which flourished from the ninth to 15th centuries, had more in common with Los Angeles than this series of temples standing in splendid isolation in the jungle might suggest.