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Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.
A Japanese Buddhist pagoda on the Thames, built by monks in a year and tended by one of them ever since.
Buddhism
Also in Monuments & Ruins.
The monks and nuns of Nipponzan Myohoji, an order founded by Nichidatsu Fujii who walked with Gandhi and vowed after Hiroshima to build peace pagodas across the world, put this one up in 1985 as a gift to the city for the Greater London Council's peace year. Thirty-three metres, double-roofed, with four gilded bronze Buddhas facing the four directions and showing birth, enlightenment, teaching and death. A monk lives in the temple in the park and sweeps the steps every morning. It stands on the riverside walk with the whole width of the Thames in front of it.
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Photo by Simon from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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