Sentence examples for official shrine from inspiring English sources

It wasn't until 1950, however, that the Church proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into heaven and that the house on Nightingale Hill became an official shrine for pilgrims, although there are still scholars who doubt that Mary ever lived there.

In 1644, as soon as the Qing seized Beijing to begin their conquest of China, they named it their new capital and erected an official shamanic shrine there.

In the early 20th century the Texas Legislature purchased the property and appointed the Daughters of the Republic of Texas as permanent caretakers of what is now an official state shrine.

This is curious, because Yasukuni is not simply a memorial to Japan's dead in all its wars; it is also the glorification of a half-century of Japanese militarism and aggression, of which the Koreans were the earliest victims".But this monument", says one South Korean official, "is our shrine".

The Texas Legislature purchased the land and buildings in the early part of the 20th century and designated the Alamo chapel as an official Texas State Shrine.

Shrine officials dispute that.

Shrine officials in Karbala at the time said the number was "highly exaggerated".

Officials at the shrine deny knowledge of such funding, but two enormous, half-completed minarets attest to the availability of large amounts of cash.

But the investigative committee, made up of three former senior elected Shrine officials, was disbanded by the board in June before it was able to finish its inquiry into those accusations, according to John C. Nobles, a member of the committee.

More than a million pilgrims come each year — a number that the city fathers would like to see multiplied to three million or four million over the next decade, shrine officials said.

One eventually achieved official recognition, becoming a shrine in the 4th century.