Sentence examples for local shrines from inspiring English sources

By 1945 there were 218 national and approximately 110,000 local shrines.

Every day, he and his wife went to local shrines to pray for their son.

These cities often possess historical monuments, famous temples, and local shrines and pailou (arches) honouring their illustrious citizens.

These pyramidal towers positively writhe with statues and figurines and the contents of the local shrines might provoke culture shock.

It also became the most prominent Western pilgrimage site at a time when pilgrimage, at first to local shrines and then to international ones, became increasingly important.

Sometimes the treasuries are ornamented with carving; and a few older stone meru towers in local shrines are carved with mythological figures.

A Shintōist, however, can believe at the same time in shrines other than his own local shrine.

On the 2nd full day they watched from afar the Pentecostal pilgrimmage to the local shrine, Notre Dame du Desert.

They also suggest that questionable financial dealings identified at local Shrine temples may also plague the national organization.

One of the bombs killed nearly sixty people at the local shrine, which holds the remains of two imams who came after the martyred Hussein.

Thus, Mecca became an attractive site for large trade fairs that coincided with pilgrimage (Arabic: ḥajj) to a local shrine, the Kaʿbah.