The word "shrine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about a place that is considered sacred, usually dedicated to a particular deity, saint, or person. For example, "People from all over the world visit the shrine to pray for healing and guidance."
But the show will be a shrine to Richard and I'll make sure of it.
"O thou who are close to God, be the middle man between us and God," bellowed the preacher, prompting a noisy chorus of tearful sobs from the crowd in Jamkaran, a 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldskirts of the holy city of Qom, home to Iran'shrinegions ruling esthelishment.
Well separated now from the new tarmac track, the fencing above the low white wall that Senna's car hit (it was a steel suspension arm from the front axle that fatally speared the driver's right temple) is now a shrine garlanded with wailing Latin graffiti, flowers and favours, many in the green and yellow of his country.
A shrine rescued from anarchist looting during the civil war, where Catalan intellectuals barricaded themselves away from Franco's police and Jordi Pujol's political party Convergència was founded.
Ten years later, insurgents are still coming down out of the mountains from Pakistan and the Shah-i-Kot Valley, gathering at a shrine in the foothills and using the plain around Rahman Khel as a transit route to head to the fighting farther west.
They've retorted with a bold poster campaign: "Steven Holl's perpetually blank canvas: who are we preserving this space for?" However the famous library is rebuilt, will it ever be more than a shrine to the ghost of Mackintosh?
On the right-hand side, down the entire length of the wall, was a shrine to Adidas that encompassed pictures of, among others, David Beckham, wearing the red-and-black stripes of Milan, with a pair of his white Predator boots – signed, of course – in a glass case.
Officials at the shrine deny knowledge of such funding, but two enormous, half-completed minarets attest to the availability of large amounts of cash.
Certainly in the case of Nelson (appointed by a Labor government as Australian ambassador to Nato and the European Union, and to the memorial directorship) Australia's secular shrine has become ever more visible.
Belgian beer lovers may also wish to visit that other Cambridge shrine to the Low Countries, The Elm Tree.
He approached families who, after their loved one died, had preserved that person's bedroom as a kind of shrine.
