Sentence examples for on a shrine from inspiring English sources

However, today he noticed a difference, saying, "It is like standing on a shrine".

"The Figurine" is about two young university graduates — rivals for the same woman's affections — who stumble on a shrine and uncover the statue of a god.

A9 Shiite Holiday Mostly Quiet Tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims converged on a shrine in western Baghdad to honor an eighth-century imam.

Each Hindu temple is centred on a shrine, symbolizing heaven upon earth, which is crowned by a roof tower representing the cosmic Indian mountain, Meru, conceived as the hub of creation.

Upon completing his undergraduate studies in 1949, he embarked for India, where he lived in the ashram of the "most famous 20th-century female guru," whose photograph he kept on a shrine in his bedroom until his death.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 9 — Tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims converged on a shrine in western Baghdad on Thursday to honor an eighth-century imam, chanting and waving flags and in some cases riding in government vehicles.

They've begun to take on the air of a shrine.

From the window of his room he can look out at International Organization for Migration tents erected on the roof of a shrine.

Mr. Raja was on a private visit to a shrine in India and did not hold any official talks.

ON SUFIS A shrine venerating a Sufi Muslim saint in Libya has been partly destroyed, the latest in a series of attacks blamed on ultraconservative Salafi Islamists.

"How can you spend that much money on building a shrine to yourself?" asked the vice president of the fiscally conservative National Taxpayers Union.