Sentence examples for shrine from from inspiring English sources

A golden reliquary shrine from the 11th century is about six inches high.

Pilgrims have already started trekking to his shrine from all over the country.

Ottoman Turks wrested the shrine from the Franciscans in the 16th century and gave it to Sufi mystics.

Another group of tanks closed in on the shrine from the south, residents of Najaf's Old City said.

"What is that?" "It's the Shrine!" From up on the outpost, about a quarter-mile away, Granados radioed Windisch and asked him to mark a target.

Another shrine from this period, Candi Sewu, consisted of a large cruciform shrine surrounded by smaller temples, only one of which has been restored.

It called on Sunnis to "purify the land of the two shrines from the atheist rafida," referring to Shias.

Bugaku has been performed by musicians attached to the imperial court and to major Shintō shrines from the 7th century without break to the present day.

Early Phoenician settlements are known from Morro de Mezquitilla, Toscanos, and Guadalhorce and shrines from Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar and the Temple of Melqart on the island of Sancti Petri near Cádiz.

Ekpe masks and ikenga (personal shrines) from the Igbo in eastern Nigeria and ibeji (twin) sculptures from the Yoruba in western Nigeria are just three examples of the art produced in pre-colonial Nigeria.

But Mr. Weigand, who quit his job as a waiter in Berlin last September to undertake a medieval-style pilgrimage to honor the church's Jubilee year, stopping at shrines from Santiago de Compostela in Spain to the Vatican, was wrong.