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The dhamaal (a kind of mystic rite) is performed at his shrine [6] during an annual fair held as part of Ramdan. [7] Pilgrims from Sindh, mostly visit the shrine by foot at the time of annual fair. They proceed from Sehwan Sharif after the end of the fair of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar via Naig Valley. They walk along stony routes through the Kirthar ...
The shrine was originally established as a simple grave next to the mosque which Ali Hujwiri had built on the outskirts of Lahore in the 11th century. [1] By the 13th century, the belief that the spiritual powers of great Sufi saints were attached to their burial sites was widespread in the Muslim world, [3] and so a larger shrine was built to commemorate the burial site of Hujwiri during the ...
[1] [3] [4] Al-Rusafah also contains the mosque of the founder of the Hanbali school of thought, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. [5] [6] During the reign of the Safavid Shah Ismail I, Gilani's shrine was destroyed. [7] However, in 1535, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had a dome built over the shrine, and it exists to this day. [8]
The memorial shrine complex was built to honor and remember the gallantry of Filipino and American soldiers who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Consisting of a Colonnade and the large Memorial Cross, the park was commissioned in 1966 by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, [1] for the 25th anniversary of World War II. [2]
The shrine is important to members of the Barelvi sect of Islam, while Deobandis shun the shrine and practices performed there. [11] Devotees at the shrine perform the ritual of mannat, or tying threads throughout the shrine as symbols of prayer. [11] The shrine is popularly believed to protect boatsmen on the Indus River and Chenab River. [12]
Bunrei or wakemitama (分霊) is a Shinto technical term that indicates both the process of dividing a Shinto kami to be re-enshrined somewhere else (such as a house's kamidana), and the spirit itself produced by the division. [1] Shrines conduct bunrei to distribute them to "child" shrines elsewhere. [2]
The area where the Bataan Death March ended was proclaimed as "Capas National Shrine" by President Corazon Aquino on 7 December 1991. [1] The shrine encompasses 54 hectares (130 acres) of parkland, 35 hectares (86 acres) of which have been planted with trees each representing the dead, at the location of the former concentration camp.
The central shrine of temple is most commonly referred as Peragam, while the smaller shrine where the image of the demigod Adishesha is houses is called Tiruoorgam. According to tradition, Mahabali, at the foot of Vamana, could not view the vishvarupam and requested him to produce a smaller form. Vishnu obliged and appeared as a snake in a ...