You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

THE SEARCH FOR GOD ENDS IN SOME INTERESTING
PLACES
 
�       From 1994 until May 2016, Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua Yanasam­pan­no,
bet­ter known as the “Tiger Tem­ple,” served as a Bud­dhist tem­ple and
tiger sanc­tu­ary in west­ern Thai­land. The author­i­ties closed the tem­ple
for ani­mal abuse.
 
�            The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter-Day Saints (Mor­mons) has
thou­sands of church­es around the world, but only 170 tem­ples.
Tem­ples are reserved for spe­cial occa­sions.
 
�       The Kar­nak Tem­ple in Lux­or, Egypt is the largest reli­gious com­plex
in the world. It cov­ers 247 acres of ground.
 
�            The Cathe­dral Basil­i­ca of St. Augus­tine in St. Augus­tine, Flori­da is
the old­est con­tin­u­ous church con­gre­ga­tion in the con­ti­nen­tal US. It
was estab­lished by the Span­ish on Sep­tem­ber 8, 1565.
 
�            Zig­gu­rats were ancient Mesopotami­an tem­ple com­plex­es that were
built from about 3,000 to 550 BCE. They also served as scrib­al
schools and astro­nom­i­cal obser­va­to­ries.
 
�            Work on the Parthenon in Athens, which was ded­i­cat­ed to the
god­dess Athena, began in 447 BCE and was com­plet­ed in 432 BCE.
 
�       St. Peter’s Basil­i­ca in Vat­i­can City is ranked as the largest Chris­t­ian
church or cathe­dral in the world. Num­ber two is The Basil­i­ca of Our
Lady Apare­ci­da in Apare­ci­da, Brazil.
 
�       Zoroas­tri­ans believe that fire is sacred, so every one of their tem­ples
has a sacred fire that’s con­tin­u­al­ly kept. There are 167 Zoroas­tri­an fire
tem­ples in the world.
 
�            Egypt­ian pyra­mids and Mesoamerican/Mexican pyra­mids may look
sim­i­lar, but they had dif­fer­ent func­tions. Egypt­ian pyra­mids were
tombs while those in Mex­i­co were tem­ples.
 
�            Mount Fuji is the high­est moun­tain in Japan and one of the holi­est
sites in the coun­try. The Shin­to and Bud­dhist reli­gions both regard the
moun­tain as holy.
 
�            If you don’t like rodents, stay away from the Karni Mata Tem­ple in
north­west India. Rats are sacred in this Hin­du tem­ple, with more than
25,000 roam­ing freely in it.
 
�            The First Juda­ic Tem­ple in Jerusalem was built dur­ing the rule of
King Solomon around 957 BCE. It was destroyed by the Neo-
Baby­lo­ni­ans in 587/586 BCE.
 
�       The Church of Saints Sergius and Bac­chus is one of the holi­est sites
to Cop­tic Chris­tians. The church was built in the 4th cen­tu­ry at the site
where the Holy Fam­i­ly is believed to have rest­ed.
 
�       The two largest mosques in the world are those in Mec­ca and Med­i­na
respec­tive­ly, but the third-largest mosque in the world is the Grand
Jamia Mosque in Karachi, Pak­istan.
 
�            The Batu Caves in Malaysia are a net­work of caves in a lime­stone
moun­tain that is ded­i­cat­ed to the Hin­du god Kartikeya/Murugan. The
caves first became a holy site in the late 1800s.  
 
�            The Kar­nak Tem­ple was pri­mar­i­ly ded­i­cat­ed to the gods Amun-Re,
Mut, and Mon­tu, although small­er tem­ples with­in the com­plex were
ded­i­cat­ed to the gods Ptah and Khons.
 
�       The Guin­ness World Records lists the world’s small­est church as the
San­ta Isabel de Hun­gria in Benal­made­na, Spain. It’s list­ed at just
under six square feet.