Twelve sandstone pillars arranged in a mandorla shape enclose this "sheltering yet open" chapel in Hesse, Germany, by Christopher Hesse Architects. Called Open Chapel, the structure is one of nine ...

Graffiti was discovered on a stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 19, marking the second such act of vandalism at the controversial war memorial this year. Shrine staff called police in ...

Together the stone circles of laterite pillars and their associated burial mounds present a vast sacred landscape created over more than 1,500 years. It reflects a prosperous, highly organized and ...

A senior researcher from the Group, Kolipaka Srinivas identified the "Sthapanacharya," when he saw the stone pillar, a Jain ...