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Cyrus
July 22nd, 2005, 09:56 PM
Unique in the whole world, about 200-km north west of the ancient Greek temple of Millionos:

http://www.nigc-mpgc.ir/images/historical/mahallat-1large.jpg

There is a huge ancient Chinese temple with an area of about 120,000 sq-m (400x300), this great temple has been carved in the heart of mountain (something which seems impossible even in modern times). It is in fact the largest temple in Iran and one of the largest one in the world!

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153001_Temple0.JPG

My great respect to Chinese architecture! http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/master.gif

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153136_Temple1.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153319_Temple2.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153424_Temple3.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153740_Temple4.JPG

I visited this great building just today with my brother! :)

My brother:

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153846_TempleBro.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153936_TempleBro2.JPG

And me:

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_154103_TempleMe.JPG
Henk
July 22nd, 2005, 10:47 PM
Looks nice. 7.5/10.
Phobos
July 23rd, 2005, 03:13 AM
6.5/10
addisonwesley
July 23rd, 2005, 08:31 AM
What were the chinese doing in iran...!!?!?
MIKI
July 24th, 2005, 11:39 AM
9/10
prsn41ife
October 11th, 2005, 12:20 AM
i'll give it a 10 because i bet that when it was a new building it looked really nice....i hate time sometimes.
Fabio
December 12th, 2005, 03:08 AM
7/10

I'm voting by what I see, and it has not much to be saw.
Sinjin P.
December 25th, 2005, 02:07 PM
8.5/10 Nice!
forvine
March 11th, 2006, 10:23 AM
7.5/10.. is there an overview picture of the area?
b3ta
March 11th, 2006, 10:33 AM
Temple looks to be Greco-Buddhist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism) architecture rather than Chinese/ 8 / 10
skipperBill
March 11th, 2006, 07:06 PM
8/10.
Mosaic
August 7th, 2006, 07:57 AM
5/10
delmaule
October 19th, 2006, 01:10 AM
6.5/10
marpa
June 7th, 2007, 09:50 PM
6/10
gutooo
June 26th, 2007, 11:40 PM
8/10
LMCA1990
July 3rd, 2007, 05:57 AM
7/10
billyandmandy
July 4th, 2007, 04:37 PM
7/10
clarky
July 5th, 2007, 09:09 PM
9/10
Dreamlıneя
July 6th, 2007, 07:38 AM
7/10
Delirium
July 6th, 2007, 08:28 PM
7/10
Popiel
December 4th, 2007, 08:44 PM
7/10 :)
ZZ-II
May 24th, 2008, 12:02 AM
8/10
Nikkodemo
May 24th, 2008, 05:53 AM
5/10
_zner_
May 25th, 2008, 06:34 AM
7.5 :D
Fundador
May 25th, 2008, 12:14 PM
8/10:)
Astralis
June 14th, 2008, 02:09 PM
7/10
Ballota
July 9th, 2008, 03:29 PM
7/10 :)
henry hill
October 17th, 2008, 01:46 AM
5/10
CreaTurco
November 22nd, 2008, 12:34 AM
:/
Inconfidente
December 12th, 2008, 03:20 AM
8.5
JyeJye
January 9th, 2009, 04:02 PM
Not much picture shown in this article~ 7~
Arpels
January 9th, 2009, 11:37 PM
dont you have a general view of the archeological site:?
Imperfect Ending
January 18th, 2009, 01:56 AM
7/10

Nice carvings
Black Label
February 23rd, 2009, 03:52 PM
7/10
tonyssa
June 5th, 2009, 02:20 AM
8/10
c6josh
August 21st, 2009, 09:09 AM
I voted 7/10 very nice engraving, it tool maybe a life time to carve those stones.
wise_zech
September 19th, 2009, 07:39 AM
10/10
Jan Del Castillo
September 24th, 2009, 01:34 AM
8. Good. Regards.
Srdjan Adamovic
October 25th, 2009, 08:41 AM
7/10
heroico
November 14th, 2009, 07:30 PM
Unique in the whole world, about 200-km north west of the ancient Greek temple of Millionos:

http://www.nigc-mpgc.ir/images/historical/mahallat-1large.jpg

There is a huge ancient Chinese temple with an area of about 120,000 sq-m (400x300), this great temple has been carved in the heart of mountain (something which seems impossible even in modern times). It is in fact the largest temple in Iran and one of the largest one in the world!

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153001_Temple0.JPG

My great respect to Chinese architecture! http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/master.gif

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153136_Temple1.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153319_Temple2.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153424_Temple3.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153740_Temple4.JPG

I visited this great building just today with my brother! :)

My brother:

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153846_TempleBro.JPG

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_153936_TempleBro2.JPG

And me:

http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/CyrusShahmiri/2005-07-22_154103_TempleMe.JPG

8/10