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Plumeria alba is the national flower of Laos, where it is known under the local name champa or dok champa. In Bengali culture, most white flowers, and in particular, plumeria (Bengali, chômpa or chãpa), are associated with funerals and death. Indian incenses scented with Plumeria rubra have " champa " in their names.
Hampton Water Treatment Works buildings alongside the A308. Hampton Water Treatment Works are water treatment works located on the River Thames in Hampton, London.Built in the second half of the 19th Century to supply London with fresh water, the Waterworks was in the past a significant local employer, and its brick pumphouses dominate the local landscape. [1]
Nag champa is a natural fragrance of Indian origin. It is made from a combination of sandalwood and either champak [1] [2] or frangipani. [3] When frangipani is used, the fragrance is usually referred to simply as champa. [4] Nag champa is commonly used in incense, soap, perfume oil, essential oils, candles, wax melts, and personal toiletries. [5]
Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or ...
A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers. It is considered the house of the god to whom it is dedicated. [1][2] Hindu temple architecture, which makes extensive use of squares and circles, has its roots in ...
Sampacca euonymoides (Burm.f.) Kuntze. Sampacca suaveolens (Pers.) Kuntze. Magnolia champaca, known in English as champak (/ ˈtʃʌmpək /), [3] is a large evergreen tree in the family Magnoliaceae. [4] It was previously classified as Michelia champaca. [4][5] It is known for its fragrant flowers, and its timber used in woodworking.
Vastu Shastra are the textual part of Vastu Vidya – the broader knowledge about architecture and design theories from ancient India. [8] Vastu Vidya is a collection of ideas and concepts, with or without the support of layout diagrams, that are not rigid. Rather, these ideas and concepts are models for the organisation of space and form ...
One Blackfriars is a mixed-use development at No. 1 Blackfriars Road in Bankside, London.It is informally known as The Vase or The Boomerang due to its shape.. The development is made up of a 50-storey tower of a maximum height of 166.3 m (546 ft) and two smaller buildings of six and four storeys respectively.