Articles tagged: "temple"

1: Bangkok Attractions

With so much to choose from, any relatively brief selection of Bangkok attractions must inevitably be personal The following includes some of the most celebrated sights in or near the city, as well as a few that might get overlooked in the course of a short visit: The Grand Palace Enclosure No group of buildings in all the country better illustrates the splendour of Thailand 's cultural heritage than this mile-square com¬pound containing the Grand Palace and its adjacent Temple of the Emerald Buddha

2: Sensoji Temple: The Heart Of Tokyo

The spiritual heart of Asakusa, and for that matter Tokyo, is the impressive Sensoji Buddhist Temple Built sometime in the 7th century before Tokyo was even Edo, to house the golden statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, which, according to legend was fished out of the nearby Simudagawa, by two local fisherman brothers