"built in honour of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing a structure or monument that was created as a tribute to someone or something. Example: The grand statue in the town square was built in honour of the brave soldiers who fought in the war.
Built in honour of Queen Victoria, who liked to winter in Nice, it has now been converted to flats.
Opposite the town hall is a monumental arch, built in honour of Louis XV; it opens onto the oblong Place de la Carrière (16th 18th century).
The mosque itself was built in honour of the Saint of Fatehpur, Sheikh Salîm Chishti, whose tomb, enclosed in a shrine of white marble, carved with the delicacy of ivory-work, glitters like silver on the right of the quadrangle.
Some distance beyond this tomb there is a small mosque, built in honour of the saint by the quarrymen of Fatehpur, before he had attracted the notice of the great Emperor.
For the rest of his life Juan Diego lived in a hut next to the church built in honour of Mary and took care of the pilgrims who came to the shrine.
The rival to the state church was an independent black church, built in honour of the martyred preacher Simon Kimbangu, who spent most of his life in a Belgian colonial prison.
The Sultanate's patronage led to the construction of many mosques, prominent being the Haji Ali Dargah in Mahim, built in honour the Muslim saint Haji Ali in 1431.
Built in the honour of Maharaja Agrasena, it is considered as a sacred place by the Agrahari and Agrawal communities.
A monument complex (Monumento Nacional a la Bandera, National Flag Memorial) was built in 1957 in honour of the flag, in Rosario.
Earlier this year, a memorial hall was built in his honour his birthplace of Yaotsu in central Japan.
She spoke to him in Nahuatl and told him that a church should be built in her honour at the top of the hill where there had once been an Aztec Temple to the goddess Tonantzin.
