Sentence examples for religious sanctuary from inspiring English sources

We were alone in a spot that had never been a town — only a religious sanctuary.

One is a section of zodiac limestone frieze from Khirbet edh-Dharih, a religious sanctuary outside Petra.

Mr. Williams constantly finds iconographic features that convince him the Valencia was destined to become a religious sanctuary.

Indeed, the synagogue at Chabad Serving N.Y.U., 353 Bowery, at East Fourth Street, may be only the second religious sanctuary ever to have been situated on the Bowery.

The idea that taxpayer money can be used to build a religious sanctuary or an altar has consistently been held unconstitutional".

When Casteret held his candle up to its walls, the flame flickered over engravings of mammoths, bison, hyenas, and other prehistoric beasts — the remains of a religious sanctuary some twenty thousand years old.

Religious sanctuaries have yielded bronzes and terra-cotta figures, especially in mountainous areas.

In more recent history, the association between churches and artists has waned somewhat, partly because religious sanctuaries were not always thought to be the most appropriate settings for modern art.

Today, you would need at least a Quad-Faith Plaza, if not a Faithplex, with room set aside for those alienated or troubled by the presence of religious sanctuaries in the first place.

To give thanks for their good fortune, these enterprising seafarers often dedicated bronze cauldrons to their gods in religious sanctuaries.

De Neve used his considerable wealth to found religious sanctuaries for the needy, and in Murillo he recognised a painter capable of both sensitively capturing the plight of Seville's poor and creating symbols of spiritual salvation through art.