Sentence examples for great shrine from inspiring English sources

The city's other great shrine of the 1960's is far from obsolete.

In the streets outside Qom's great shrine they joined forces with thousands of traditional, provincial Iranians, devout followers of Montazeri's teachings and rulings, and shouted abuse at some of the Islamic Republic's leading figures.

Buildings he designed included the administration building of the Great Shrine of Izumo (1963), the Hotel Tokoen in Yonago (1964), the Miyakonojō Civic Centre (1966), the Pacific Hotel in Chigasaki (1967), and the Kurume Civic Centre (1969).

He brought the great shrine of Demeter at Eleusis under state control and constructed the first major Hall of the Mysteries (Telesterion) for the annual rites of initiation into the cult.

Prior to the 1978 79 revolution the provincial governor served as the administrator of the great shrine complex, but the new government after the revolution and subsequent establishment of an Islamic republic separated the provincial governorship from the administration of the shrine, lodging the latter in the hands of a senior cleric.

The arrival of the warriors will see one great shrine supplant another, more deeply entrenched one - for the Round Reading Room harbours its own sacred grail, being the place that writers spanning the last 150 years came to read, think and most importantly, to write.

The great shrines, like those in Mazar-i-Sharif, drew pilgrims from all over the country.

It was the conversion to Christianity of Constantine I (the Great) and the famous pilgrimage (326) of his mother, St. Helena, who found the True Cross, that made possible the building of the great shrines in Jerusalem, including the Anastasis ("Resurrection"; later known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), and inaugurated one of the city's most splendid and prosperous epochs.

"Cathedrals are great shrines not only for worship but also for welcoming the modern pilgrim, and it is a responsibility as well as a privilege to consider mission and worship alongside the preservation of the heritage".

The prospect of an assault on the capital, and on the great shrines of Shiite Islam, by Al Araba-style Sunni Arab militants has jolted Iraq's Shiite masses into action.

We have no future if we allow mockery in front of great shrines, and if some see such mockery as a sort of bravery, an expression of political protest, an acceptable action or a harmless joke".