Sentence examples for a small sanctuary from inspiring English sources

The blaze was confined to the school building and a small sanctuary next door.

But over the weekend, it became a small sanctuary where Mary Jane Hunt, 74, could rest her eyes.

The church, built in 1937, has a small sanctuary, and he helped design a large fellowship hall completed in September 1999.

On the final day before authorities begin to dismantle the Calais refugee camp known as "the Jungle," dozens of young people headed to a small sanctuary amid the chaos: a graffiti-fronted, one-room cafe — made of plywood and a tarpaulin roof — that has become a regular fixture in their otherwise disjointed lives.

If we can't have a sanctuary that expands to seat 500 for the High Holy Days, almost unanimously everyone said, 'Let's settle for a smaller sanctuary and have our High Holiday services elsewhere as we have always done.' " "The other significant compromise," he continued, "was to question whether we can really afford to have a nursery school.

As it is now, Beit Simchat Torah's small sanctuary, offices and a classroom are tucked into the courtyard of the Westbeth complex, at 57 Bethune Street in the West Village.

In 1973, the year the Donkey Sanctuary was registered as a charity, Svendsen was bequeathed 204 animals by Violet Philpin, who had herself run a small donkey sanctuary near Reading, and donkey welfare became a full-time passion.

Customers are ushered in as though entering a high-security jeweler: a doorman opens the outer door, everyone in the party is escorted into a small paneled sanctuary, then an inner door opens.

The only proof that the citadel had actually been touched by modernity since it became a historic relic was a small orthodox sanctuary that you had to walk through to get to the steps of the tower.

To the south were the small sanctuary of the city Lares (guardian deities), built after the earthquake in 62 ce; the Temple of Vespasian; and the imposing headquarters of the woolen industry, erected by the wealthy patroness Eumachia.

Nevertheless, over the years, burglars have stolen prayer rugs and religious tapestries from the small sanctuary, the only Islamic place of worship in rural Orleans County, which hugs the shore of Lake Ontario between Buffalo and Rochester.