Organized by continent, Amazing Temples of the World offers the
reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of
worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present.
Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate, from the Middle East to
California, this book features such impressive places of worship as the
Mahabhodi Temple, India, built in the location where Buddha is thought
to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth-century BCE Temple of
Confucius in Qufu, China, the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu
Simbel, in southern Egypt, the great carved monument to the Pharaoh
Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the spiritual home of
the world's 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in
Neasden, London, the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated
with 180 photographs, Amazing Temples of the World includes more than
150 places of worship, from Ancient Greece and Rome, through traditional
synagogues to modern Buddhist, Taoist, and Sikh temples.