The phrase "altar building" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to religious practices, rituals, or construction of altars.
Example: "The community gathered for altar building as part of their annual festival to honor their traditions."
Alternatives: "construction of altars" or "altar construction".
The museum director says that every lunchtime he leaves his office to take offerings of food to the altar in the building where the cases of bones are housed.
Instead, I roamed Copacabana Beach with thousands of revelers who were building altars in the sand to Yemanjá, the goddess of the sea in Brazil's African religious pantheon.
(That altar, and other buildings of the Pergamene Acropolis, were excavated by German archeologists in the late nineteenth century, removed to Berlin, and displayed there in what became known as the Pergamon Museum. The anticipated closing of that museum's altar hall led to a hugely successful Pergamon show at Berlin's Staatliche Museen, in 2011, a precursor to the current Met exhibition).
Most of the academic world has ignored the authorship question for generations, or belittled it as the obsession of idiosyncratic amateur scholars, while building altars in students' minds to the image the tragedian David Garrick promoted during the 1769 Shakespeare jubilee that created the Stratford tourism business: the man of humble origins who rose to the literary pantheon.
4. Rituals surrounding Samhain include bonfires, dancing, feasting and building altars to honor deceased ancestors.
2. Some modern Pagans consider it the "witch's new year," though other traditions simply recognize Samhain as the end of the year, says Kelley Harrell, the author of 'Gift of the Dreamtime.'. 3. Rituals surrounding Samhain include bonfires, dancing, feasting and building altars to honor deceased ancestors.
The large, multiroomed temple housing the altar is the central building of the Takht-e Soleymān temple complex, and it is located just inside the complex's northern gate.
With its single screen sat firmly on the building's altar, Christchurch stands as an amusing yet accurate encapsulation of the concept of the cult of cinema.
So its extraordinary facade, rededicated in 1995, frames not a house of worship but a modest exhibition about a particular Jewish community and its once-thriving synagogue, while fragments of the original building's altar are pieced together like an unfinished puzzle.
There is also a memorial to the KMT soldiers who died in their fight against communism, The Martyrs' Memorial, a museum whose wooden panels bear the names of the dead, set on an altar in the main building.
