Sentence examples for sacred monument from inspiring English sources
"The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred monument of Christianity.
A delicate and sensitive project to restore the most sacred monument in Christianity has been boosted by a $1.3m philanthropic donation that will help preserve Christ's tomb in Jerusalem as a destination for pilgrims for generations to come.
It is likely that many other ancient monuments are encased in later stupas that are still being used for religious purposes, for it was probably customary not to destroy an old sacred monument but to encase it in a new shell, maybe several times over, and perhaps to construct a small external replica of the encased original alongside.
These are people for whom the global canon of recorded materials stands not as a sacred monument to be preserved behind glass for all eternity, but a vast toolbox or toybox to be played with in ever new and creative ways.
One of those ancient monuments is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda – Xi'an's most sacred monument – which was built in 652 by the monk Xuanzang, who travelled across India for 18 years and returned with a precious collection of Buddhist sacred texts.
The sacred monument, created from rare volcanic rock and shipped from Armenia, commemorates the day 1,700 years ago that Armenians adopted Christianity, church officials said.
In or around its capital, Pagan, between 931 and 1284, succeeding kings competed in constructing vast numbers of sacred monuments and even a library.
As far afield as China, Peru and Turkey, such sacred monuments were built high up, whether on manmade or natural sites, and in circular patterns possibly linked to celestial movements.
The downhill run passes a cluster of sacred monuments including the West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill, a prehistoric man-made mound not much smaller than the Pyramids at Giza.
One of the sacred monuments of the Flemish movement is a huge tower in the shape of a cross on the River Yser, where, during the First World War, many Flemish soldiers died in battle, allegedly because they couldn't understand the orders from their Francophone officers.
Other sacred monuments include the stone slab where Siddhartha was born, housed by the Maya Devi Temple, and the pool in which Siddhartha was bathed after being born, called Puskarni.
