Sentence examples for altar from from inspiring English sources

An altar from the temple would be in the new show.

Mr. Gioni explained, "It's a pulverized altar from a church from England".

View looking forward toward altar from the center of the sanctuary.

Outside, mourners began building a makeshift altar from dug-up cobblestones.

Examples of Roman sculpture include many portrait busts and the famous Altar from Ostia relief showing the origin of Rome.

Some scholars, however, question the building's religious function, partly because no altar from the 5th century BCE has been found.

"Since the Mass is integrally bound up in the Sacrifice of Christ on the cross, a crucifix is inseparable from the Liturgy, from the altar and from the Church," Mr. Rose writes.

In 1550, the Council of the Church of England ordered the removal of altars from all churches; Communion was henceforth to be administered from tables.

The fragrant resin had once been required for the incense that burned on altars from Jerusalem and Cairo to Rome, a substance so precious that it made a fitting gift from a King of the East to a new-born god.

The altars, from Brazil, Trinidad and New Jersey, include various folk paraphernalia and adaptations of Nigerian ritual objects: axes, candles, oil and liquor bottles from Trinidad; dolls, fruit, gourds, cakes and a leopard skin, representing Shango, for the shrine from New Jersey.

John Tolhus has carved meticulous altars from bars of bath soap, and Paul Blackburn's untitled work from a large brick of laundry soap resembles the intricate carving on the facade of gothic cathedrals; one can make out dragons and gargoyles.