Sentence examples for major shrine from inspiring English sources

(Tirupathi is the name of a town that houses a major shrine to Venkateswara).

Father Roca said there was evidence that the crucifix had been brought to the area originally by a Guatemalan priest and from early on, it was called Our Lord of Esquipulas, after a major shrine in Guatemala.

Set on the slopes of a mountain, the Kompira shrine is reached by climbing 1,368 stone steps to the major shrine (or 2,235 to another shrine near the summit).

The attack, one of the bloodiest this year, struck at the heart of Shiite Islam — Kufa is a stronghold of the powerful Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr and the site of a major shrine — and aggravated sectarian fury.

Click here to view The biopic of Sant Tukaram (1568-1650), a devotee of Vishnu as Vitthal, whose major shrine is in Pandharpur in Maharashtra, is an extraordinary film.

Foreign tourists have returned to a Bangkok street lined with tailors' shops and overlooked by the Grand Hyatt hotel less than 24 hours after a bomb targeted a major shrine on its corner.

Waving red, green and yellow flags and some beating themselves with chains, members of Iraq's majority Shiite community gathered around major shrines for Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad.

There are 3,000 archaeological sites and major shrines for Christians and Muslims.

The British Museum has organised its exhibition around these four major shrines, focusing on their architecture and artefacts.

He rebuilt or adorned most of the major shrines of Assyria and Babylonia, paying particular attention to the "House of Succession" and the Ishtar Temple at Nineveh.

Suicide bombers at major shrines have attacked the mass gatherings of devotees, who flock to hear music and drumming and to meditate, sometimes with the assistance of cannabis.