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The Shingon Buddhist temple precinct of Danjo Garan, Mount Koya, Japan. First built in 816 CE, the structure was destroyed by fire but rebuilt in 1937 CE.

Mount Ararat (Armenian: Masis; Turkish: Ağrı Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyaye Agiri) is a dormant, compound volcanic mountain, consisting of two ancient volcanic peaks, located in present-day eastern Turkey very close to the border with Armenia. Strongly...

View of the 14th-century Gergeti Trinity Church with Mount Kazbek (or Mount Kazbegi) in the background. Mount Kazbek is associated in Georgian folklore with the mighty hero Amirani, the Georgian version of Prometheus, who was chained on the...

Mount Shasta in the Siskiyou Mountains, California, USA. Photograph by Greg Schechter of San Francisco, USA, 2012. Mount Shasta is considered sacred by several Native American nations including the Achomawi, Atsugewi, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc...

A 19th century CE oil painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God on Mt. Sinai.

Together, the Ararat Mountains straddle the borders of what are present-day Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. Mt. Ararat (“Greater Ararat”) rises to a height of 5,137 m (16,854 ft). Mt. Ararat’s neighboring mountain, Little Ararat (“Ararat...

A view of Mount Ida (right) from the ancient city of Eleutherna in Crete. In Greek mythology, Mount Ida was sacred to the Greek Titaness Rhea and on its slopes lies one of the caves in which Zeus was born.

St Michael's Mount is a tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the shore by a causeway, passable between mid-tide and low water. The castle and chapel have been in ownership since 17th...

Mount Nemrut is a monumental site belonging to the Kingdom of Commagene, a small, independent Armenian kingdom that was formed in 162 BCE. This was a period during which the once mighty Seleucid Empire was beginning to disintegrate, allowing...

Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, oil on canvas painting by Simon de Myle, 1570 CE. Private collection, Paris.