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Location of San Diego County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Diego County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Adobe Falls is a multi-level waterfall on the San Diego River, north of Interstate 8 and San Diego State University. The rocks have been covered with graffiti. 81: Piedras Pintados: Northwest corner Rancho Bernardo 4/6/1973 82: Temple Beth Israel: Heritage Park, Old Town 6/1/1973 Temple Beth Israel is San Diego's first synagogue.
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The Vedanta Society built its first temple, called the Old Temple, in North America in San Francisco in 1905. [ Note 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This temple has evolved into a bona fide Hindu temple. [ Note 1 ] Through the 1930s and 1940s, Vedanta Societies were also established in Boston , Los Angeles , Portland , Providence , Chicago , St. Louis ...
Torana is a sacred or honorific gateway in Buddhist and Hindu architecture. [15] Its typical form is a projecting cross-piece resting on two uprights or posts. It is made of wood or stone, and the cross-piece is generally of three bars placed one on the top of the other; both cross-piece and posts are usually sculpted.
Lomaland was a Theosophical community in Point Loma in San Diego, California, from 1900 to 1942. Theosophical Society leader Katherine Tingley founded it in 1900 as a school, cultural center, and residential facility for her followers.
It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission, the first European settlements in what is now the West Coast of the United States, were founded in 1769. The park encompasses about 40 acres (16 ha) and offers views of the city, the San Diego River valley, and the Pacific Ocean. The grounds are open to the public.
Kalashas of Srirangam temple. A kalasha (Sanskrit: कलश, romanized: kalaśa) is a finial, generally in the form of metal or stone spire, used to top the domes of Hindu temples. [2] Kalashas as architectural feature has been used at least before the first millennium BCE and were made of terracotta and wood during this early period.