Greatest religious buildings on Earth. Open the thread and be amazed 🧵

Greatest religious buildings on Earth. Open the thread and be amazed 🧵

1. 1000+ Years, 6 major earthquakes and still standing strong with 0° inclination. Where are the Wonders of the world ? Watch till the end…👎 Brihadeeswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu, India.

2. Angkor Wat Temple, Cambodia 🇰🇭 900 years ago, it took 4000+ elephants and one person from every single family in the kingdom, 37 years to build this Temple. The largest religious monument in the World, built by the King Suryavarman II.

3. The Kailasa Temple in Ellora, India that can never be built once again on Earth! 164 feet long, 108 feet wide & 100 feet high, Entire Mandir from top to bottom was cut out from solid basalt bedrock! The largest Monolithic Structure of the World.

4. Temple of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

5. The World’s Largest Buddhist monument !! An architectural wonder inspired from sacred Sri Yantra built by king of shailendra dynasty during the 9th Century CE. The Borobudur Temple, Central Java, Indonesia.

6. Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, Iceland One of the world's great modernist churches, subsuming the principles of Gothic unto the modern materials of concrete and steel. An expressive, captivating, almost magical symbol of tradition and modernity united.

7. Dilwara Jain Temples, Rajasthan, India 🇮🇳 Built over the course of five hundred years, between the 11th and 16th centuries, this set of temples is perhaps the finest example of Solaṅkī style architecture. A cornucopia of elaborately carved snow-white marble.

8. St. Peter’s Basilica - Vatican City Designed by Michelangelo, Bernini, and others, this basilica is a masterpiece of Baroque architecture with its grand dome and ornate interior.

9. Fanjingshan Temples, Guizhou, China Perching on a spur of rock deep in the Wuling Mountains, these two Buddhist temples — whose origins stretch back centuries — seem almost impossible. But they are real — and their tiles are made from iron because of the extreme wind!

10. Sanctuary of Las Lajas, Ipiales, Colombia 🇨🇴

11. The Cologne Cathedral is a stunning Gothic masterpiece. Its construction took over six centuries. The cathedral’s two massive spires make of it one of the most iconic landmarks, with the largest façade of any church in the world.

12. Gurdwara Sri Hemkund Sahib, Uttarakhand, India 🇮🇳 Sometimes it isn't just the architecture, but the location that can make a building so extraordinary. It is situated at a height of over 15,000 ft above the sea level in the Himalaya.

13. Prambanan Temple in Indonesia 🇮🇩 Built during the reign of the Sanjaya Dynasty in the 9th century. More than just an architectural feat, the Temple is a mystical cultural site with a rich & intricate history. 📷 : kyrenian

14. More than 900 Temples carved 2000 feet above sea level that are over 900+ years ago. It’s an incredible piece of engineering and craftsmanship that human beings displayed on this mountain. The World’s only mountain that has more than 900 Temples ~ Palitana, Gujarat, India.

15. The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Spain, stands as a testament to faith and architectural grandeur. Its construction spanned from 1681 to 1872.

16. Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan Once the private residence of a villainous shogun, Kinkaku-ji — "the Temple of the Golden Pavilion" — was converted into a Zen Buddhist temple by his son. That was 600 years ago. It was burned down by a monk in the 1950s and rebuilt beam for beam.

17. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria A monument of Neo-Byzantine architecture thirty years in the making, and perhaps the culmination of Bulgarian independence from the Ottomans. A cascade of gold and green domes outside; a shadowy cavern of candles and icons inside.

18. The white temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand 🇹🇭

19. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, France 🇫🇷

20. Virupaksha temple, Hampi Karnataka, India 🇮🇳

21. Enshrined in centuries, the once world's largest cathedral, now a Mosque, the 1487-year-old Hagia Sophia (aka Ayasofya) takes your breath away at every corner.

22. Meenakshi Amman Temple, Tamil Nadu, India 🇮🇳 14 Majestic Gopurams, 33000 exquisite sculptures including 2 golden sculptured vimanas, intricate carvings, beautiful paintings & an ancient history-The temple itself holds its pride.

Cover picture: Tiruvannamalai Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu, India 🇮🇳 Cover Picture credit - arunachalarts @sarandashnamoorthy on Instagram.