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The new seating of the excavated church is a modest contrast to its pre-lahar-incident amphitheater-style seating. In 1995, the lahar flow that entered Bacolor submerged the town in lahar mud, mostly between three to six meters (9.8 to 19.7 ft) thick, but burying even tall structures in the town's lower parts like the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican and Bacolor's famous San ...
Hindu temples are built in the panchayatana (Sanskrit: पञ्चायतन, romanized: pañcāyatana) layout: the main shrine is surrounded by four subsidiary shrines. [1] [2] The origin of the name are the Sanskrit words pancha (five) and ayatana (containing), referring to a "five-shrined" layout. [3] [4]
Civic: BAAD Studio - The Sunken Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican, Bacolor, Philippines; Commercial Mixed-use: Aedas - Taichung Commercial Bank Headquarters Mixed-Use Project, Taiwan; Competition Entries: Nextoffice - Sadra Civic Center, Sadra, Iran; Culture: Studio 44 Architects - Museum of the siege of Leningrad, St. Petersburg, Russia
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War erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the RSF over a transition to free elections, with tens of thousands of people reported dead. The United Nations has said nearly 25 million ...
Pakistan has a number of shrines that have become places of pilgrimage.They include mausolea and shrines of political leaders (of both pre-independence and post-independence Pakistan), shrines of religious leaders and pirs (saints) and shrines of leaders of various Islamic empires and dynasties.
Cantre'r Gwaelod, also known as Cantref Gwaelod or Cantref y Gwaelod (Welsh for 'The Lowland Hundred'), is a legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales.
Kafr Saba (Arabic: كفر سابا) was a Palestinian village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia. [6] [7] In Roman times, it was called Capharsaba and was an important town in Palestine. [8] By around 1000, it was noted as a village with a mosque. [9]