⫶Temple complexes

🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 904

Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 904 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.

🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 928

Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 928 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.

🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 24

Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche

Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 24 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.

🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Huaca de la Luna Precinct (La Libertad)

Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche

Huaca de la Luna Precinct in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex

Musawwarat es-Sufra – Lion Temple Complex

Kushite (3rd c BCE – 4th c CE; Lion Temple c. 300 BCE) · Kushite (Meroitic, King Arnekhamani)

Vast Kushite labyrinth (180×150 m Great Enclosure with 55 columns) and Lion Temple of Apedemak with vivid reliefs of king and lion-god, possibly elephant training ground; Hintze ex...

🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city

Old Dongola Cathedral Quarter (Makurian Annex)

Makurian Christian (c. 500–1500 CE; cathedral 707 CE) · Makurian Nubian Christian

Annex quarter south of Old Dongolo's famous cruciform church, with 707 CE cathedral (32×28 m) with 6 granite columns, 11th c frescoes of archangels and king portraits, and palace a...

🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid

Great Pyramid of Cholula

Preclassic to Postclassic (300 BCE – 1200 CE) · Mix: Cholulteca, Teotihuacan, Olmeca-Xicallanca

Largest pyramid by volume in world: 450 m sided adobe brick pyramid with successive construction phases, now hill topped by Spanish church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Qasr el-Sagha (Zarew) Temple

Middle Kingdom (1990–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (12th Dynasty)

Unfinished Sobek temple with 7 shrines on Lake Qarun shore.

🇫🇷 France · Temple complex

Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 113 — France Region 5

Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple

Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 113 — France Region 5 in France Region 5, France is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.

🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Tell of Painted Ware Temple 106 — India Region 10

Period Medieval · Regional culture Temple-Universal

Tell of Painted Ware Temple 106 — India Region 10 in India Region 10, India is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex

Babylon Rotana Baghdad Hotel

The Babylon Rotana Baghdad Hotel is a 284-room hotel on the banks of the Tigris River, in the Al-Jadriya district of Baghdad, Iraq.

🇸🇰 Slovakia · Temple complex

Katarínka

ruins of a church and a monastery and a national cultural monument in the village of Dechtice, Trnava district, Slovakia

🇩🇪 Germany · Temple complex

Reifenstein Abbey

Cistercian abbey near the present village of Kleinbartloff, Germany

🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex

Temple Mount Sifting Project

archaeological project focused on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem

🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex

Jameh Mosque of Qerveh

mosque in Abhar County, Iranian national heritage site

🇱🇦 Laos · Temple complex

Wat Hosian Voravihane

a Buddhist temple (wat) in Luang Prabang, Laos

🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Temple complex

Klášter

village in Plzeň-jih District of Plzeň region

🇧🇪 Belgium · Temple complex

Villers Abbey

former abbey in Villers-la-Ville, Belgium

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex

Wat Saravan

temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex

Birmingham Central Library

Birmingham Central Library was the main public library in Birmingham, England, from 1974 until 2013, replacing a library opened in 1865 and rebuilt in 1882.

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex

Great Mosque of Herat

The Great Mosque of Herat (Dari: مسجد جامع هرات, Masjid-i Jāmi’i Hirāt), is a Sunni Friday mosque, located in the city of Herat, in the Herat Province of north-western Afghanistan.

🇷🇸 Serbia · Temple complex

Crna Reka Monastery

The Crna Reka Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Црна река, romanized: Manastir Crna reka) is a monastic hermitage located in the mountains of southern Central Serbia, in Ribariće, situated in the gorge of…

🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex

Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Arabic: جامع النوري, romanized: Jāmiʿ an-Nūrī), also known as the Nouri Mosque, is a Sunni mosque in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq, famous for its leaning…