Shrines

thumb|180px|The shrine of the Hodegetria at the [[Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk, Russia, photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1912).]] thumb|180px|Shrine to Mazu (goddess)|Tin Hau at [[Repulse Bay, Southern District, Hong Kong.]] thumb|240x240px|Shrine to Durga in Panam City A shrine ( "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped. Shrines often contain idols, relics, or other such objects associated with t

thumb|The sanctuary at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney thumb|Ajax the Lesser|Ajax the Younger violates [[Cassandra's sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE]] A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine, protected by ecclesiastical immunity. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a safe place for people, such as a political sanctuary; and non-human sanctuary, such as an animal or plant sanctuary.

a temple for the veneration of Confucius and the sages and philosophers of Confucianism in Chinese folk religion and other East Asian religions

An imamzadeh () is a Persian term with two related meanings: a type of holy person in Shia Islam, and the shrine-tomb of such a person.

United States fort in Baltimore, Maryland

memorial to soldiers killed on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor

area located at the bottom of the ancient Roman road that leads up to the Capitol in Rome

part of the grave goods of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun

11th-century Scandinavian casket

thumb|Remains of the temple to Menelaus Therapne () was a town in ancient Laconia, within the territory of Sparta. ==Burial of Helen of Troy and Menelaus== According to Greek mythology, its name comes from a daughter of Lelex. The place was distinguished for housing the Menelaion, a temple to Menelaus, where it was believed that the bodies of Helen of Troy and Menelaus were buried. ==Sanctuary of Helen== Herodotus writes that there was a sanctuary of Helen at Therapne, and relates the tradition that a nurse went every day to that sanctuary to ask that it free a girl from her ugliness and that

Buddhist temple

religious shrine in Nepal