Sentence examples for stone shrine from inspiring English sources

The Chua Mot-cot, Hanoi, has vestiges of a stone shrine probably dated 1049.

Or maybe they enlarge the simple stone shrine and build something bigger, along the lines of Angkor Wat or the Sagrada Familia.

When fit together, as is shown here, they form a naos — a stone shrine or ark that once held the temple god.

Lovers embrace beneath a stone shrine to the Madonna; a communion dress hangs on a street corner railing, echoed in another image in which a white sheet billows in the wind from a balcony.

And to assure the spiritual health of the unsuspecting visitor from afar, a protective stone shrine will guard each villa -- a reflection of the magic that underlies this island, its people and its hotels.

The chronicle Chulavamsa mentions that he built a circular stone shrine to hold the tooth relic of the Buddha.

Rachel photographed the colorfully dressed ascetic worshipers, known as sadhus, who squatted in small stone shrines dotting the hillside.

Set back from the road and surrounded by trees, the ornate stone shrines at Baroli were erected between the eighth and the twelfth centuries.

The couple and their son run for safety but are hunted down, and two stone shrines are raised over their graves as a sign of Siahpads' revenge.

When Mr. Rowe discovered that some stone shrines on the hotel site were blocking access for the army of over 1,500 builders, he turned to a pedanda -- a Brahman, or high-caste priest -- for advice.

Indeed, the team points out, some indigenous people in West Africa build stone shrines at trees they consider sacred.