Connected Sites
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The Parthenon. Built in Nashville TN USA. Originally constructed in plaster, wood and brick in 1897 as part of the Centnennial Tennessee Exposition. It was rebuilt 1902-31 in concrete and a full size replica of the statue of Athena Parthenos was added in 1990. The building is used as an art museum.
See en.wikipedia.org
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Byodo-in Temple. Built in 1968 in the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park on O'ahu Hawaii. It operates as a non-denominational temple within the park for worship, weddings etc.
See en.wikipedia.org
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Dabotap and Seokgatop in Gyeongju's Bulguksa Temple have been constructed as full-size replicas in North Korea to be visited in a Heritage Park.
See english.chosun.com
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New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois, USA (an architectural replica of the original Gračanica in Kosovo ... but built in a scale eighteen percent larger than the Original)
See en.wikipedia.org
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Maryhill Washington USA - Full size and to the (assumed) complete design as it would originally have been built. Erected 1918-29 by a local Quaker pacifist businessman as a memorial to local solidiers killed in WWI (which was still in progress when the project commenced).
See en.wikipedia.org
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Replica of three windmills at Kinderdijk at Huis Ten Bosch, Japan
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The Hall of Architecture at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, exhibits a plaster cast of the façade of the Abbey of Saint-Gilles.
See carnegiemuseums.org
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Replica of Rapanui's Moai row at Ahu Akivi is located Nichinan Coast, Miyazaki, Japan
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"A 1:1 scale replica of the Scrovegni Chapel is located in Japan, at the Otsuka art museum"
See it.wikipedia.org
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There?s a full size copy of the Blue Mosque in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan
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a Chinese firm has started to rebuild much of Hallstatt in faraway Guandong province
See www.telegraph.co.uk
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n Sri Lanka, a full-scale replica of one of the Buddhas has been created which is now known as the Tsunami Honganji Viharaya at Pareliya. It is dedicated to the victims of the 2005 tsunami.
See en.wikipedia.org
