The phrase "holy altar" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an altar that is considered sacred or set apart for religious purposes. Example: During the ceremony, the priest approached the holy altar and lit the candles as a symbol of God's presence among the worshippers.
I even had a chat with the cousin and tried to look as casual as can be when I approached the holy altar: an open bar.
In cyberpunk novels, technology isn't controlled by white-coat boffins in a distant lab on the holy altar of Science, but in our homes, on our streets, in our bodies.
In their oppression of the Jewish community in the land of Israel, the Syrian Greeks defiled the Temple, including its two most sacred elements: the altar and the Holy of Holies.
She received First Holy Communion at its altar, helped set up the thrift shop in its basement.
The Rev. Gilbert Luis R. Centina III stood behind the altar at Holy Rosary Church in East Harlem, staring at pancake-size plaster chips scattered beneath his sandaled feet.
Inside, the painting - nearly 4m-tall - is well-lit, and you can stand close to a canvas that normally hangs behind an altar in holy gloom.
Among them, presumably, was the woman who approached Mr. Gioia last weekend to criticize him for favoring the right to abortion -- just as he was about to receive holy communion at the altar of St. Sebastian's.
Even into holy places before the altar I carry the memory of our love, and far from lamenting for having been seduced by pleasures, I sigh for having lost them.
Many of Fernández's figures were carried in public processions, installed in stagelike niches in churches or taken out and placed in front of the altar on holy days.
The screen, altar rails, holy table and plaster ceiling of the chancel date from the 17th century.
He presides over decadent parties and dispenses cocaine to his guests atop a dinner table, like a priest administering holy communion at the altar.
