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Meru roof
A pagoda-like roof in Southeast Asia, always consisting of an odd number of courses, that covers important shrines, and is named after the Hindu world-mountain. Mount Meru is a sacred mountain in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.
Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 July 2011 11:46)