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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 453

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of the tope or tumulus raised over asacred relic is a hemisphere carried on a circularbasement, while that of the cave temple is abasilica with two aisles and a nave, at the endof which stands a sanctuary in the form of a771 Temple of the Wixds, at Athens. The second Brahminical period,… … TEMPLE. PLATE II The Tannoji Temple and Pajjoda at Osaka, Japan ;the Hondo and To of a ftreat religious establishment.Originally of a veiy ancient epoch, they have been often rebuilt, and are now nearly of ]inre Tokngawastyle, seventeenlh or eighteenth century. Compareplates and text illustrations…

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