ABSTRACT
The temple is the place where people use processions and ritual assemblies to celebrate the role, and even the presence, of divinity among them. Celebratory routes are evanescent versions. In earlier eras they were built and set apart within precincts; in later centuries perspective was used to give them prominent places designed to have a conspicuous expressive character within urbanism that their importance merited. The most common communal celebrations are represented here by nine examples from 1305 BCE to 1721. An important variation with three examples from 796 to 1689 is the palatine chapel within the palace of the monarch believed to occupy a throne through God’s will.
