The architecture of the mosques and gongbei tomb shrines of China's Muslims often combines traditional Chinese styles with Middle Eastern influences.

Many of the city's mosques and gongbei shrines are located in the historically Muslim district to the west and southwest of the city center.

There are also a number of gongbei shrines centered around graves of Sufi masters.

In China, the term gongbei is usually used for shrine complexes centered around a Sufi saint's tomb.

On the Chinese soil the institutions became known as menhuan, and are typically headquartered near the tombs ( gongbei ) of their founders.

The gongbei ( Islamic architecture ) | gongbei ( shrine ) of the Sufi master Yu Baba in Linxia City, Gansu.

Linxia City's major gongbei shrine complexes are:

Multicoloured Mosque | Hua Si gongbei ( Islamic architecture ) | Gongbei ( Ma Laichi's mausoleum )

In the 19th century, the Coptic Orthodox, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Syriac Orthodox acquired lesser responsibilities, which include shrines and other structures within and around the building.

In this festival, they keep playing Miyake Taiko from 11: 00 a. m. to 8: 00 p. m. to lead their mikoshi portable shrines going around their town.

Shintoism is the indigenous spirituality of the people of Japan with many roosters being found around Shinto shrines, with the rooster being associated with the sun goddess Amaterasu.

His temples held the image of a phallus ; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the " dishonourable member " was placed " on a little trolley " and taken in procession around the local crossroad shrines, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron.

Some are based around temples or shrines, others hanabi ( Fireworks ), and still others around contests where the participants sport loin cloths ( see: Hadaka Matsuri ).

The countryside around Rijsbergen is dotted with eleven shrines devoted to the Virgin Mary.

" Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions — all now ruthlessly swept away — throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.

The latter is particularly worth seeing as the portable shrines containing the Jinja's tutelary deity are paraded through the city streets and around the harbour.

Modern Ise began with small settlements that sprung up around the two shrines.

In the meantime, successive emperors in Wuyue Kingdom paid great tribute to Buddhism, and built a number of temples, pagodas, shrines and grottos around the lake area.

At that time, the communities were located mainly around their primary shrines.

Sugi is the national tree of Japan, commonly planted around temples and shrines, with many hugely impressive trees planted centuries ago.

As with all Taoist worship, Taoist shrines are organized around a sense of appreciation of nature and surroundings that inspire meditation on, and living in accordance with, the Tao (" Way " or " Path ", a concept of living harmoniously with one's natural surroundings and environment ) and the Three Jewels Of Taoism ( different from Buddhism's concept of Three Jewels )-compassion, moderation, and humility.

This theory is supported by historical sources that wrote about existence of centers of religious life ( named Romuva, using the present-day variant of this word ), concentrated around more significant shrines, holy and mystic areas.

In the Shinto religion, it was used to symbolize purity, and was used around shrines, temples, and palaces.

Every year the town hosts various events, including a summer fireworks show and festival on August 17th, the Kyōtamba Road Race on November 3rd, a Field Hockey Festival, and neighborhood festivals centering around local shrines, the most famous of which is held in the Shitsumi area.

The region around the shrines consists of the Ise-Shima National Park and numerous other holy and historic sites including the ' wedded rocks ' Meoto Iwa, and the Saiku ( the site of the Heian period imperial residence ).

In ancient Japan, sand ( suna ) and gravel ( jari ) were used around Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.

The manuscript described Hayam Wuruk's royal excursion around the Majapahit realm to visit villages, holy shrines, vassal kingdoms and territory in East Java.

Senator Davenport is shown around refugee camps, shrines and temples, and major cities in a careful deception to keep him out of the loop.

The other Jyotirlinga shrines in Maharashtra are Trimbakeshwara near Nashik and Grishneshwar near Ellora around Aurangabad.

At around this time, inspired by a heavenly voice in a dream, he abjured all the luxuries of his life, and resolved upon a pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina, hoping to find there the solution to his spiritual crisis.

The number of Shinto shrines in Japan is estimated to be around 100, 000.

The shintai leaves the honden only during festivals ( matsuri ), when it is put in portable shrines ( mikoshi ) and carried around the streets among the faithful.

Similar small shrines, called naiskoi, are found in Greek religion, but their use was strictly religious.

In the wake of Achaemenid expansion shrines were constructed throughout the empire and particularly influenced the role of Mithra, Aredvi Sura Anahita, Verethregna and Tishtrya, all of which, in addition to their original ( proto -) Indo-Iranian functions, now also received Perso-Babylonian functions.

Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery.

The most sacred relics from the Roman religion were transferred from their respective shrines to the Elagabalium, including the Great Mother, the fire of Vesta, the Shields of the Salii and the Palladium, so that no other god could be worshipped except in company with Elagabal.

He erected at Dan and Bethel, the two extremities of his kingdom, " golden calves ," which he set up as symbols of God, enjoining the people not any more to go up to worship at Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, but to bring their offerings to the shrines he had erected.

These kami are regional and many shrines ( hokora ) have been built in their honour.

Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit.

While many of the public shrines are elaborate structures, all are characteristic Japanese architectural styles of different periods depending on their age.

It is performed in many of the larger Shinto shrines and is characterized by slow, elegant, circular movements, by emphasis on the four directions and by the central use of torimono ( objects dancers carry in their hands ), especially the fan and bells.

All of the grand shrines are regulated under Taihō and are required to account for incomes, priests, and practices due to their national contributions.

Following the war, Shinto shrines tended to focus on helping ordinary people gain better fortunes for themselves through maintaining good relations with their ancestors and other kami.

The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism in the Tamil country conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom.

Greek and Roman pilgrims to pagan shrines often made collections of miniature images of gods and goddesses or their emblems, and Christian pilgrims later did the same.

Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Marduk, who was assumed to be wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines to his capital Babylon.

Some families build altars or small shrines in their homes ; these usually have the Christian cross, statues or pictures of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pictures of deceased relatives and other persons, scores of candles and an ofrenda.

Some major shrines considered most significant for their apparitions and miracles are listed in this section:

Cities were founded in his name, medals struck with his likeness, and cities throughout the east commissioned godlike images of the dead youth for their shrines and sanctuaries.

Developing as small shrines with the earliest settlements, by the Early Dynastic I period, they had become the most imposing structures in their respective cities, each dedicated to its own respective god.

The most sacred relics from the Roman religion were transferred from their respective shrines to the Elagabalium, including " the emblem of the Great Mother, the fire of Vesta, the Palladium, the shields of the Salii, and all that the Romans held sacred.

She appears in a prominent position on the designs accompanying the Kudurrus boundary-stone monuments of Babylonia, being represented by a statue, when other gods and goddesses are merely pictured by their shrines, by sacred animals or by weapons.

The Igbo often make clay altars and shrines of their deities, usually with figures being featured in them.

( For example, he was quite sceptical about the propriety of Catholic relics of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and numerous Catholic saints, noting that some shrines and pilgrimage sites made conflicting claims about which bodily remnants, clothing or other scared objects were held at which site, and entetrtained doubts about their authenticity.

Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw fish, vegetables, and rice served on bamboo and wooden trays, clapped their hands in worship ( something still done in Shinto shrines today ), and built earthen-grave mounds.