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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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".
When Sparta was devastated by an earthquake in 464 BC, it was said that the cause had been Poseidon's vengeance on the Spartan ephors after they had killed helots who had taken refuge at the sanctuary. It is thought that the sanctuary at Tainaron dates at least to a time when the helots were still independent, before they had been subjugated by ...