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Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society.Founded in 1872 in New York City, it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and has over 200 chapters across nine countries, with a global membership of nearly 1.7 million "Shriners". [1]
Shrine of Pir Alauddin Siddiqui Nerian Sharif, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. He was the founder of Mohiudin Islamic University Nerian Sharif and Mohi ud din medical college Mirpur . Shrine of Pir Syed Said Ali Shah Gardazi, Sohawi Great Sufi from Silsila e Chishti, Sohawa Sharif Tehsil Dhirkot, Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir
The Association of Shinto Shrines is the largest Shinto religious group in Japan, and more than 79,000 of the approximately 80,000 Japanese shrines, including major ones, are members. [3]
Most of the sanctuaries were built by settlers, but many of them later received government recognition and funding. At first, jinja built Japanese communities for their use, often using ritual objects from their old shrines. [5] [6] [7] In 1900, the Japanese authorities erected the first large shrine in the colonies, it became Taiwan Grand Shrine.
The Japanese community survived the war and moved the shrine to a temporary location in 1947. The present location was established November 1, 1958. Daijingu Temple of Hawaii is the only shrine in American territory with a recorded history of holding worship services for a Japanese war hero before the start of the Pacific War .
Some shrines are the "first shrines" called ichinomiya that have the highest rank in their respective provinces of Japan. The Ise Grand Shrine stood at the top of all shrines and thus was outside the classification. [2] [3] All listed shrines on this page with the exception of Ise Grand Shrine are Beppyo shrines.
Kannushi (神主, "divine master (of ceremonies)", originally pronounced kamunushi), also called shinshoku (神職, meaning "employee/worker of kami"), is the common term for a member of the clergy at a Shinto shrine (神社, jinja) responsible for maintaining the shrine and leading worship of the kami there. [1]
Oda Nobunaga first claimed that the Oda clan was descended from the Fujiwara clan, and later claimed descent from Taira no Sukemori of the Taira clan.According to the official genealogy of the Oda clan, after Taira no Sukemori was killed in the Battle of Dannoura in 1185, Taira no Chikazane, the son of Sukemori and a concubine, was entrusted to a Shinto priest at a Shinto Shrine in Otanosho in ...