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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
Hùng Vương altar on Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương at a school. The Hùng Kings' Temple Festival (Vietnamese: Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương or Lễ hội đền Hùng) is a Vietnamese festival held annually from the 1th to the 10th day of the third lunar month in honour of the Hùng Vương or Hùng Kings.
[2] Due to this close collaboration, he was very unpopular amongst the people of Vietnam. [2] Like a number of Vietnamese emperors, Khải Định desired the preparation of a tomb in anticipation of his death, but he was the last member of the Nguyễn dynasty to make this decision.
The temple has an area of more than 39,000 square meters, started construction in June 2019 and was inaugurated on April 6, 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The main temple is surrounded by a round lake on a square base, symbolizing the philosophy of "round sky and square earth", then surrounded by 18 bows symbolizing the 18 generations of Hung Kings . [ 3 ]
The people erected a temple to worship him. The Lý dynasty also erected a temple dedicated to him in Cảo Hương village near West Lake. [8] Thiền uyển tập anh has a follow-up to the story: In the Early Lê dynasty, Buddhist monk Khuông Việt travelled to Vệ Linh mountain and wanted to build a house there. That night, he dreamt of ...
Popular belief designates the Hùng temple as also the site of Văn Lang's capital, Phong Châu. The kingdom is associated with the Đông Sơn culture and the famous bronze drums . For the successive Vietnamese dynasties and states, the Hùng Temples are revered with annual processional festivities known as Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương held every ...
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.
The Temple of Hùng King was originally built between 1927 and 1929, under the name Temple du Souvenir Annamite, to honour the Vietnamese soldiers who died while fighting for the French in World War I. The temple was inaugurated at the same as time as the Musée Blanchard de la Brosse (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History) on 1 ...