Sentence examples for a centre of devotion from inspiring English sources

Between the 5th and 10th centuries ce it was the provincial capital of many Hindu dynasties and a centre of devotion to the god Shiva.

For all three faiths it is a holy city, a centre of pilgrimage, and an object of devotion.

For a man of his intellectual distinction, and devotion to Harvard's thriving as a centre of excellence, to be hounded out in this way would be one of the blackest acts in the history of the university.

Mahābād remains a centre of Kurdish nationalism.

Aquitaine remained a centre of dissension.

"That's a centre of population.

But both were centres of devotion for people from all over south London.

They threw away a century of devotion to building the best.

The Algerian Raḥmānīyah grew out of the Khalwatīyah in the second half of the 18th century, when ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Ghushtulī, the founder, made himself the centre of Khalwatī devotion.

At several centres he established at Prague, Milíč introduced the devotio moderna, a reform of prayer developed in Holland that emphasized a method of devotion centred on Christ (Christocentric) and intended to involve the emotions as opposed to the academic and abstract forms of medieval scholastic theology.

"It's an object of devotion, an object of worship".