Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon.

(via Kieran Donnellan works with students to build clifftop chapel in Lebanon)

As King writes, the sacred site — whether a conventional holy place or a more informal colloquial space in which to rise above the everyday — is not some fixed portal to an unchanging other zone. Rather a sacred site is the product of a collective intention to defer, alter, and rearrange the assumptions and expectations and categories that stabilize and constrict daily life, peeling away the world’s oppressive specificity. Sacred sites are not inherently sacred by virtue of where they are, but become sacred by virtue of the behavior they coordinate.

Photograph of the Dherwada Caves at Ellora taken by Deen Dayal in the 1890s. 

British Library

Houses of the Holy, James Kerwin

Kendrick Kellogg Hoshino Stone Church.  More views here.

(via Faith Lift: 14 Modern Churches Reinvent Religious Architecture | Urbanist)

View of Akagi Shrine in Kagurazaka, Tokyo by Tokyobling  More pics at Tokyobling.

(via Akagi Shrine – Kagurazaka | Tokyobling's Blog)

Suzhou Chapel by Neri and Hu photo by Pedro Pegenaute (via neri & hu completes suzhou chapel as a floating white box in china)

The Colossi of Memnon, near Luxor, Egypt, date unknown.

This monumental figure was discovered in March 1912. Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border.

Andrew Moore, Golden Valley Norwegian Lutheran Church, Perkins County, South Dakota, 2013

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Untitled 1, Ponte City, Johannesburg, 2008.

Zoroastrian temple, Balkh Afghanistan. 

It is located in Northern Balkh, and it is believed to be the birthplace of Zoroaster, the founder of one of the world’s earliest monotheistic religions. 

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(via Anticipation rises for Chile Temple inauguration - Bahá'í World News Service)

Old Manchester , Jamaica

Shot by @waderhoden

Styled and directed by @symbiosity

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