Most residents who were unhurt were staying either in a large tent camp on a football field at a local high school, or in tents at a 400-year-old temple that appeared to have survived the quake intact.
From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.
Last year, Shanghai opened its first Jewish museum, inside the old Ohel Moishe temple.
From the time of his betrothal to Mary until the finding of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, he is there at every moment with loving care.
"The younger generation is losing respect, " added 48-year-old Pornpun Kaewbundit, as she emerged from a temple in Bangkok's historic old town recently.
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The only human activities in the core area are sightseeing and visits to the Woljong Temple, an old historic relic.
After you've wandered around Middle Temple checking out old suits of armour, reading the plaques and taking in all the history, you can grab a Stella or Hoegaarden and watch the games on a movie theatre-size screen in the grand hall.
Where Strand merges into Fleet Street is the epicentre of Temple, the centuries-old legal quarter.
This time it was not the silvery pencil of an Atlas booster carrying the 77-year-old Senator into space but the great technological temple of a space shuttle.
The controversy allowed Thai nationalists to reheat old, discredited arguments as to why the temple rightfully belongs to Thailand (not so, ruled the International Court of Justice in 1962).
The 90-year-old menorah used in the ceremony came from the Temple Israel synagogue in Long Beach, New York, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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As the local and international press corps converged on Jerusalem's Old City to cover the Arab riots at the Temple Mount two weeks ago, little mention was made of the fact that Jerusalem was not the only flashpoint.
In the latest attack on those involved in Mumbai's film industry , India's rags-to-riches music baron, 41-year-old Gulshan Kumar, was shot dead outside a temple, prompting the prime minister, Inder Gujral, to praise his contribution to the film-music business.
And inside the old city walls lie the remnants of a single Hindu temple.
TEMPLE-RASTON: The owner of the old 2001 Odyssey, a Brooklyn man named Jay Rizzo, told Bruno that he had no intention of letting the floor go for such a paltry sum.
The band's roots lie in the city's Mount Temple school where the then 15-year-old Larry Mullen, looking for fellow musicians, posted an advertisement on a noticeboard.
Have a "pinch me" moment as you view the Wat Mahathat temple at sunset, and then gingerly cruise the streets of Old Town on a bicycle tour before resting at The Legendha Sukhothai Resort.
Cook, the 31-year-old ex-girlfriend of Mr. Page, wasn't connected to the temple shooting.
On foodie enclave Broughton Street is Artisan Roast (artisanroast.co.uk), a teeny temple of serenity for those who worship the reviving bean, wallpapered in old coffee sacks.
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