Elza talks about two temples, namely Khosheutovskiy and Anzhatn. When I was a child, my father and I used to go to the Khosheutovskiy Temple. Back then there were no houses built around it, as it is the case today. When the Bolsheviks decided to destroy it, two barges p...

Tseren says that when he was 5 he remembers the temple in his village of Kyuktya being intact. Tseren used to go there with his parents and was impressed by its beauty. Before entering, people circled around the temple. After the Kalmyks were exiled, all villages in the...

Photograph of the facade of a Chinese temple. A sign hangs above the entrance. The open portico is flanked by two very large vestibules. People are entering the temple. The roof is tile with very ornate cresting. It is built in the venacular style.

“The Temple of the Maolis or 7 Furies in the hill near Samodh [Samode].” External view of several men in front of tree and temple. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.

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Photograph of "the famous Karasaki Jinja, or shrine, from which our little neighborhood gets its name - with the celebrated Karasaki pine tree right - and left may be seen trees from the Maryknoll compound. From Bro. Clement"

Photograph of the Itsukushima Shrine torii. Two women dressed in kimonos stand with their backs to the camera looking at the torii from the shore. There are three stone lanterns along the shoreline.

Photograph of a snow-covered "Korean temple."

Photograph of "Yomei-mon Gate of Toshogu Shrine, Nikko."

Photograph of the "Meiji Shrine, Tokyo." A large torii marks the entrance to the shrine. In the foreground of the image, on the right hand side, is a lantern.