The sanctuary of the Yachats Community Presbyterian Church is lighted by six windows featuring gold-hued panes made of agates collected from the local beaches.

Corinth Presbyterian Church was founded in Parker in 1846, with the current sanctuary built in 1923, and is thought to be the oldest continuing congregation in Collin County.

* North Presbyterian Church ( 1831 – 1832 ), 273 Bleecker Street, Carmine Street, Greenwich Village -- Founded in 1829, sanctuary built 1831-1832 to designs by Town & Davis.

Other projects include the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, the sanctuary of Ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church at 32 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, where Mission Bay Community Church also meets, and the large Berkeley City Club, adjacent to University of California.

Beginning in the 1970s, Bish served for more than 20 years as organist at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she designed the 117 rank Ruffatti organ in the sanctuary.

Shaw, working with his friend, the painter Frederic Clay Bartlett, and several other designers and craftsmen, gave Second Presbyterian a sanctuary firmly rooted in Arts and Crafts principles.

Then to gain entrance to both the outer and inner sanctuary of the church the women pretended to the gatekeepers that they were pilgrims from Cappadocia who had spent all their funds and wanted to worship before starting their return trip.

The Christian Flag displayed next to the pulpit on the chancel of a church sanctuary.

Eastern Orthodox tradition tells that the pagans directed the stream of a river against the sanctuary of St. Michael there to destroy it, but Michael the Archangel appeared and split the rock by lightning to give a new bed to the stream, diverting the flow away from the church and sanctifying forever the waters which came from the gorge.

On entering a church, Roman Catholics genuflect to the consecrated host in the tabernacle that holds the consecrated host, in order to acknowledge respectfully the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, a presence to which a red votive candle or sanctuary lamp kept burning close to such a tabernacle draws attention.

If the church does not have a sanctuary lamp the centermost lamp on the seven-branch may remain lit as an eternal flame.

Moreover, Katz reveals that those who did escape the Nazi round-up and found sanctuary in church buildings in Rome did so in the face of explicit opposition from the Vatican.

The congregation in an Oriental Orthodox church in India collects palm fronds for the Palm Sunday procession ( the men of the congregation on the left of the sanctuary in the photo ; the women of the congregation are collecting their fronds on the right of the sanctuary, outside the photo.

In Oriental Orthodox churches, palm fronds are distributed at the front of the church at the sanctuary steps, in India the sanctuary itself having been strewn with marigolds, and the congregation proceeds through and outside the church.

Flowers ( in this instance Tagetes | marigold s ) strewn about the sanctuary in an Oriental Orthodox church in Mumbai, India on Palm Sunday

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

Examples include the door of the church where Cole seeks sanctuary ; the color of the balloon, carpet, and Cole's sweater at the birthday party ; the tent in which he first encounters Kyra ; the volume numbers on Crowe's tape recorder ; the doorknob on the locked basement door where Malcolm's office is located ; The shirt that Anna wears at the restaurant ; Kyra's mother's dress at the wake ; and the shawl wrapped around the sleeping Anna when Malcolm realizes he is a ghost.

Basiliscus flees to sanctuary in a church, but surrenders himself and his family after extracting a solemn promise from Zeno not to shed their blood.

He is forced to seek sanctuary in the church of Hagia Sophia to escape the wrath of the people.

By other scholars, however, the second element has been identified with the Celtic element-lan, signifying an enclosure or demarcated territory ( source of the Welsh word ' llan ', meaning a sanctuary or church ).

In the narthex of the sanctuary of the church is a stained glass window honor which features, among other highlights of Patton's career, a picture of him riding in a tank.

At the point during the reading which mentions Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, two clergymen approach the large cross in the center of the church, remove the soma, wrap it in a piece of white linen, and carry it into the sanctuary.

Legend tells of another chieftain who stole property from Ní Mháille and fled to a church for sanctuary.

The thief dug a tunnel and escaped, however, and the hermit who took care of the church broke his vow of silence to scold her for attempting to harm someone who had sought sanctuary.

The word has passed into modern English with an altered meaning because traditionally a criminal who could gain access to this area without capture was thereby given the sanctuary of the church.

There has been a sanctuary on the spot since the ninth century, but the current church is from 1637.

The rock is also protected as a marine sanctuary, Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and events are not allowed within 100 feet of either side of the rock.

" At a gathering in Oregon designed to discuss acquiring land for a Faerie sanctuary, a newcomer to the group, coached by Walker, confronted Harry about the power dynamics within the core circle.

Tina, born at the Oregon Zoo in 1970, arrived at the sanctuary on August 11, 2003, from Vancouver.

The National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, popularly known as The Grotto, is a Catholic sanctuary on Sandy Boulevard at Northeast 85th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, United States, set both at the foot of and on top of a cliff.

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The government has been criticized for failing to inform tourists of the crocodile sanctuary and danger, while simultaneously promoting tourism.

Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among them in the sanctuary.

In any case, the sanctuary has been polluted by the bodies of the two dead priests, leading into the next theme, holiness.

In the Orthodox Church the use of the menorah has been preserved, always standing on or behind the altar in the sanctuary.

However, since the 2001 invasion little success has been accomplished in quelling the Taliban insurgency in the southern parts of the country, many believe the Taliban cannot be defeated as long as it has sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan and that Operation Enduring Freedom has transformed into a continuing full fledged war with no end in sight.

The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshana Rabbah (" Great Hoshana ", referring to the tradition that worshippers in the synagogue walk around the perimeter of the sanctuary during morning services ) and has a special observance of its own.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

A. Pasqualini has argued that Saturn was related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill in Rome involving a human sacrifice ad the aspersion of the statue of the god with the blood of the victim.

A. Pasqualini has argued that Veiovis seems related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill ( the northernmost hilltop of the Quirinal ) in Rome, which involved a human sacrifice.

Tindari has a famous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem " Vento a Tindari ", written by Salvatore Quasimodo.

It has been supposed that the sanctuary might have been even more ancient, perhaps a Christian adaption of some already existing temple: the church is in fact located just in front of the sacred campus dedicated to Rediculus, the Roman " God of the Return ".

" The prophetai are referred to in literary sources, but their function is unclear ; it has been suggested that they interpreted the Pythia's prophecies, or even reformatted her utterances into verse, but it has also been argued that the term prophētēs is a generic reference to any cult officials of the sanctuary, including the Pythia.

This sanctuary has also been designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention since May 1987.

A peninsula along the southern shore of the Sassafras River containing several large farms and a large pond that were assembled into one property by the former owners of The Sassafras Boat Company marina and Sassafras House restaurant at Georgetown, Liz Maytag and Mike Revuke, has been preserved as a wildlife sanctuary.

On another occasion, it is implied that he works at a bird sanctuary, as he has to order " the biggest bird seed bell you have ... no, that's too big ".

The temple on top of Monte Smith has traditionally thought to have been devoted to Apollo, but according to Vedder, it would have been a Helios sanctuary.

Contending that the Sahrawis have a right to self-determination under the UN Charter, Algeria has provided the Polisario with material, financial, and political support and sanctuary in southwestern Algeria's Tindouf Province.