Sentence examples similar to sacred abode from inspiring English sources
Swallows were swooping and scudding in and out of the several sacred churches, once the abode of monks but long since uninhabited, the roofs gone but the walls and ornamental doorways still standing, gray and sturdy, with their own mosaics of lichen.
Temples and shrines are recognized by devotees as places where special attitudes and restrictions prevail because they are the abode of the sacred.
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 150 W. 17th St. (212-620-5000) — Ringed by the Himalayas, mythical abode of the divine, Kathmandu has been sacred to Buddhists and Hindus alike for thousands of years.
Hundreds of millions revere the Himalayas, the Abode of Snow, as the source of sacred rivers, such as the Ganges, on whose life-giving waters they depend for their very existence.
The pilgrims were members of various groups making their way to Lake Manasarovar and Mt. Kailasa in the Tibetan Himalayas, sites sacred to Hindus as, respectively, the mythic source of the Ganges and the paradisiacal abode of the god Siva.
Vishaksena is resurrected and the sanctified Bhairava-Shiva, having bathed in the sacred pond in Varanasi, casts off the appearance of Bhikshatana and returns to his abode.
The sacred beverage called soma was set out on "the sacred grass," and the ancestors were invited to ascend from their subterranean abode to partake of it and to bless their pious descendants.
This is our final abode".
Lonesome was my work abode.
