🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Dazu Beishan Rock Carvings — Chongqing Northern Mountain Gallery
Late Tang to Southern Song (892 – 1178 CE) · Chinese Buddhist with Song gentry patron
Beishan 264 caves with 10k slender Song statues 892–1178 at Dazu north hill.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Temple complex
Tinmel Mosque — Almohad Sanctuary
Almohad (1125–1276) · Berber Almohad (Masmuda)
Tinmel Mosque (1156 CE) is the prototype Almohad mosque at 2200 m in High Atlas where Ibn Tumart, Mahdi of Almohads, fortified village and is buried (Tumart tomb).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Saint Catherine Monastery — Sacred Monastery of Sinai
Byzantine to Present (Justinian–continuous) · Byzantine Greek Orthodox / Bedouin Jebeleya
Saint Catherine Monastery (548–565 CE Justinian I) is world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at 1585 m foot of Mount Sinai intra Wadi el-Deir.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Bingling Temple Lower Grottoes — Liujia Gorge Yellow River Cliffs
Western Jin to Yuan (300 – 1300 CE) · Buddhist Hexi nomad to Tang imperial
Lower cliffs with 420 CE earliest inscribed cave 169 of 169 caves at Liujia Reservoir.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Yungang Western Cliffs — Datong Grottoes West End Caves
Northern Wei to Liao (453 – 525 CE peak) · Buddhist Tanyao imperial under Emperor Wencheng
Western 5 caves 40–45 with Tanyao Buddhas 15 m of Northern Wei Pingcheng capital.