Beautiful temples in London (or anywhere really)

scottdisco

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wow cheers Bang waking the Holy Book sounds amazing, and cheers for the Southall/Brum thing, i wasn't at all confident re my 'largest' shout, it was on the Wikipedia page for the Smethwick one without citations so...

again on a Padraig tip, once upon a time in the Windy City, was over the road from this place (really near the Montrose stop on the Brown Line El P in Ravenswood on the nw side)

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never went inside, mind, and although pleasant from all sides, the most pleasure it ever gave me was watching the little boys dressed up in their finery playing calcio in the car-park, shouting at each other in Romanian :)

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Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø

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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
This building (Westminster Cathedral) always strikes me as rather strange looking

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Well enough known of course but seems strangely hidden away for such a huge building. Suddenly appears when you're wandering around the back of Victoria - which isn't something I make a habit of too often.

Yes! One of my favourite things in London is precisely that it's so hidden. A genuine Rome moment (ie wandering round a corner to see something unexpected and incredible) in central London.
 

Client Eastwood

Well-known member
wow cheers Bang waking the Holy Book sounds amazing, and cheers for the Southall/Brum thing, i wasn't at all confident re my 'largest' shout, it was on the Wikipedia page for the Smethwick one without citations so...

Something to do with the last Guru (of 10) saying that all the teachings you need are now in the Holy Book and then the Holy Book became a Guru (meaning teacher) in itself, more info here . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib
 

scottdisco

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The Great Mosque, Djenné, Mali. The largest adobe building on earth.

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BTW, Westminster Cathedral, as well as that nice layered cake thing :D has a nice Sam Smiths pub, the Cardinal, right behind, with a fine, handsome interior and sub £2 pints.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Try to go early when they are doing the waking the Holy Book (which is treated as a living 'thing') with bhajans early in the morning about 8.00.
One of my friends married a Sikh girl and every time he went to rehearse the wedding they gave him the runaround using this as an excuse "sorry, can't rehearse today, the book is still sleeping". Service was good fun, though as several have said it obviously went right over my head, you just have to watch everyone else and stand up or sit down when they do really. Food was great of course.
 

scottdisco

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And I was left absolutely slackjawed when I found this in Clitterhouse Park near Brent Cross

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yeah this one's OK too. i stumbled across it the other month after getting royally ripped off for a set of candelabra in the John Lewis.

Never Knowingly Undersold - yeah right!
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
more Chicago in re: Eastern European cathedrals

(none of them are particularly gorgeous individually, but collectively, I dunno, they got this character about them...)

the Poles

St. Stanislaus Kostka, somewhere off the Kennedy
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the Ukrainians (in, of course, Ukrainian Village)

St. Volodmyr & Olha
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there's loads of them really, there's a whole mess of Polish cathedrals off the Kennedy Expressway
 
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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Gettin' back to da old skool:

OK, a few obvious choices first...

Abu Simbel, Egypt:

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Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico:

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Angkor Wat, Cambodia:

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Plus a few closer to home...

Castlerigg, Cumbria:

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Stenness, Orkney:

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*who knew druids were so good at Photoshop? ;)

Edit - Brucey bonus: Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic

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IdleRich

IdleRich
sorry Rich!
Only joking, pictures are still good.

"Sorry, I'm being a cheeky monkey. It's Borobudur in Java, massive Buddhist temple.
And the one from Clitterhouse Park is actually in Lake Bratan, Bali."
I'm pretty sure he knew that really.
Good stuff from all. Enjoy your take especially Padraig 'cause of the local knowledge.
 
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