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Shinto shrine
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Japanese shrine of the Shinto religion
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 1,650 inbound references to Shinto shrine, and connects out to Engishiki, Osaka and Yasukuni Shrine.
It sits within the topics Architecture in Japan and Shinto shrines.
Vinony links it to 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
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- topic has template
- Template:Infobox Shinto shrine
- Unicode character
- ⛩
- Commons category
- Shinto shrines
- topic's main category
- Category:Shinto shrines
- Commons gallery
- 神社
- OpenStreetMap tag
- building=shrine
- different from
- Jinja
- has list
- list of Shinto shrines
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Encyclopedic overview
Two women praying in front of a shrine
A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja; archaic: shinsha, meaning: 'kami shrine') is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shinto shrine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.