Outram built a "monumental temple" with which he hopes to situate the viewer "within a Landscape of Symbols".

The monumental temples that had countless thousands of slaves attached to them were gradually abandoned to the jungles.

The complex of monumental temples was replaced with baths around the Great Courtyard and the labyrinthine Rammed-Earth Building.

A Roman monumental temple was built there c. 44 and was dedicated to the emperor Claudius.

The Maya created vibrant commercial centers, monumental religious temples and exquisite art works.

The religions vied with each other for royal favor, expressed in land grants but more importantly in the creation of monumental temples, which remain architectural wonders.

At the last moment, the busy road is forced to bend to this monumental temple of knowledge, and until recently, the solution was symmetry.

With its big effects, slow pace and massive repetitions, it has the architecture of a monumental temple.

With its monumental temples, observatory, huge ball court and macabre Platform of Skulls, the site is an engrossing puzzle.

The first known monumental temples were built in Mesopotamia around 4000 B.C.