shrine
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The southwestern French town's important Catholic shrine welcomed Jean-Paul II in 1983 and in 2004, as well as Benedict in 2008.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
In Iraq's holy city of Najaf, the majestic shrine of Imam Ali stands quiet, its vast courtyards no longer echoing with the multilingual whispers of pilgrims from before the Middle East war.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Many elderly women and young girls also visit the shrine.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
This Safavid-era carpet created for an ancestral shrine in northwest Iran was gifted by J. Paul Getty and is prized for its ornately knotted design featuring lamps and central medallions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Fishermen who are the descendants of the Heike dress in hemp and black headgear and proceed to the Akama shrine which contains the mausoleum of the drowned Emperor.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing shrine
World Religions
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