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The sanctuary at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. In many Western Christian traditions including Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and Anglican churches, the area around the altar is called the sanctuary; it is also considered holy because of the belief in the physical presence of God in the Eucharist, both during the Mass and in the church tabernacle at other times.
Garbhagriha at Pattadakal with the Lingam icon of the god Shiva. A garbhagriha (Sanskrit: गर्भगृह, romanized: Garbhagṛha) is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, often referred to as the "holy of holies" or "sanctum sanctorum".
An altar lamp, also known as a chancel lamp, refers to a light which is located in the chancel (sanctuary), of various Christian churches. In Roman Catholic , Old Catholic , Lutheran and Anglican churches, the chancel lamp burns before a tabernacle or ambry , or simply hangs in the chancel, to demonstrate the belief of the Real Presence of ...
A temenos (Greek: τέμενος; plural: τεμένη, temenē) [1] is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, such as a sanctuary, holy grove, or holy precinct. [2] [3] A temenos enclosed a sacred space called a hieron ...
The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods (Modern Greek: Ιερό των Μεγάλων Θεών Ieró ton Megálon Theón), is one of the principal Pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of Samothrace within the larger Thrace. Built immediately to the west of the ramparts of the city of ...
Darrhon or Darron (Ancient Greek: Δάῤῥων) was a Paeonian [1] god of healing, whose cult was adopted by the ancient Macedonians, as mentioned by Hesychius as a Macedonian Daemon and attested hapax in one inscription of Pella c. 200 – 150 BC.
While many myths directly link supernatural intervention to the selection and delimitation of the sacred space, in some cases, divine intervention was said to construct the enclosure, as seen in Uruk, where the god An was directly involved in its construction. [4] In Minoan Crete and the wider ancient Aegean region, such structures are also ...
A third chapel was built in 1876. The first Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father was inaugurated in 1912. This first sanctuary is known as the ancient shrine, and is the parent of the Parish of the Trinity. In 1943, Don Emanuel Gomes de Oliveira, archbishop of Goiás at the time, made it the cornerstone of the New Sanctuary.