The funerary rituals and architecture of this time greatly influenced the more elaborate temples and rituals used in worshipping the gods in later periods.

Polabian towns often included elaborate temples often visited for offerings and pilgrimages.

A city with a long broad avenue between low terraced temples, other buildings, dominated by two great stepped pyramids and an elaborate temple.

Dedicated to the rice goddess, this is the most elaborate and ornate temple in the north.

The more elaborate temples were equipped with very rich figural decoration in the form of reliefs and pedimental sculpture.

Tropical materials were adopted for housing, and elaborate temples (called heiau) were constructed from the lava rocks available.

With its elaborate Indian temples, 19th-century Chinese shophouses and statuesque Islamic mosques, Penang is packed with historic attractions.

Hosshō-ji's nine-storied pagoda would become the most elaborate Imperial-sponsored temple structure ever erected up to this time.

Pacal and his predecessors not only built elaborate temples and pyramids.

They build elaborate temples to their deities and are aware of the existence of Royal animals, counting on the sentient creatures to help guide their religious lives.