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Sefa-utaki View of Kudaka Island from Sefa-utaki. Sefa-utaki (斎場御嶽, Okinawan: シェーファウタキ Seefa-utaki [1]), meaning "purified place of Utaki," [2] is a historical sacred space, overlooking Kudaka Island, that served as one of the key locations of worship in the native religion of the Ryukyuan people for millennia. [3]
Pakistan has a number of shrines that have become places of pilgrimage.They include mausolea and shrines of political leaders (of both pre-independence and post-independence Pakistan), shrines of religious leaders and pirs (saints) and shrines of leaders of various Islamic empires and dynasties.
The historian K. A. C. Creswell noted that those who built the shrine used the measurements of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The diameter of the dome of the shrine is 20.20 m (66.3 ft) and its height 20.48 m (67.2 ft), while the diameter of the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is 20.90 m (68.6 ft) and its height 21.05 m (69.1 ft).
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The first building in the complex was built during the rule of the Qara Qoyunlu in 1453, as an Imamzadeh shrine dedicated to two saints, "Ibrahim al-Batha" and "Zayn al-Abidin" who were believed to have been descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib through Ja'far al-Sadiq.
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White chapel of Senusret I. Karnak Open Air Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor, Egypt.It is located in the northwestern corner of the Precinct of Amon-Re at the Karnak complex.