None have been seen since losing their spiritual capital, Kandahar, in December.

Even so, some critics wonder whether Woodstock spent all its spiritual capital during the original show in 1969.

This settlement was intended to be a spiritual and civil capital of the council's New England colonies.

Even now, the Centre remains a real centre of Ukraine's spiritual capital.

The spiritual capital of Umbria is Assisi, a town more tied to its most famous son than anywhere else on earth.

"The city of Jerusalem is the religious, political and spiritual capital of the Palestinians," he said.

The move strengthened the political position of Moscow and established it as the spiritual capital of fragmented Russia.

He was reading through his overnight faxes from Kandahar, the Taliban's spiritual capital.

"This is the spiritual capital of the African diaspora," he says.

At the time, it was the most impoverished district of the quickly expanding capital: poverty in all its forms, psychological and spiritual.