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19th century Latgalian Catholic wayside shrine at The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia. A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain.
On walking maps, wayside crosses and shrines are displayed in order to aid orientation. On many crosses there is an inscription which may indicate why the cross was erected and by whom. In some regions wayside crosses are mostly made of wood (e. g. in the Alps). They vary in size from small, inconspicuous crosses to great crosses hewn from ...
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Meshel et al (1995) had suggested circa 801, finding carbon dating to support some primary evidence that pointed that way. Through the decades, Meshel's dating estimates as site archaeologist have remained consistent. The author proposes it was a wayside shrine lying between important destinations like Elat, Ezion-Geber, Kadesh Barnea. [81]
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2nd Altar – Galgenkreuz (lit. "gallows cross", small religious monument that resembles a wayside cross or wayside shrine; similar in meaning to a conciliation cross, though more specifically relating to an execution site) at the street to Ettishofen in the parish of Heilig Geist, Weingarten
The "column shrine" (1, 2, 3) or "pillar shrine" (1, 2, 3), not necessarily containing a niche or other enclosure, seems to be a type of shrine in the dictionary sense of "an object, structure, or place that is considered sacred by a religious group" (Merriam-Webster). Doremo 02:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)