Video surveillance cameras hang from the eaves of hallowed temples and plainclothes police officers mingle with the faithful.
Nothing one's iPhone can serve up has yet come close to emulating the hallowed temples and hushed reverence of a Bond Street flagship.
Many Israeli rabbis who hitherto deemed stepping on the hallowed Temple Mount to be as sinful as incest, incurring a karet, or divine death, are now reconsidering.
Pictures of sacred places highlight the intersection of place and spirituality, given that one of the primary motivations for travel in premodern Japan was religious pilgrimage to hallowed sites and venerated temples.
These days, they are inching their way along busy sidewalks as they follow the three hallowed circuits around the Jokhang Temple, the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism, in advance of praying at its inner shrines.
And, in Tolosa, the temple too was hallowed, since it was very much revered by the inhabitants of the surrounding country, and on this account the treasures there were excessive, for numerous people had dedicated them and no one dared to lay hands on them.
"... hallowed be thy name" -- Hallowed, meaning sacred.
If you make one excursion from Nusa Dua, try to take the 20-minute cab ride across to Ulu Watu (100,000 Rupiah /£7) one of the world's most hallowed surfing spots and site of the 11th-century temple Pura Luhur Ulu Watu (although see Warning of the Week, page 9).
"That is hallowed ground".
