One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

At the time, a shrine like this might shelter an image of the Crucifixion or the Virgin Mary, but since it is turned away from the viewer, we are not sure what it truly is.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.

It is a pilgrimage centre for the shrine of the Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and is also the base for visiting Pushkar ( 11 km ), an ancient Hindu pilgrimage city, famous for the temple of Brahma.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

The landing site of Columbanus is marked by a shrine at Carnac in Brittany.

The emperor's kami is venerated at the Kashihara Shrine a Shinto shrine located at Kashihara in Nara prefecture, where his palace was said to have been located.

This shrine is formally named Unebi-yama no ushitora no sumi no misasagi.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Nara.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Osaka.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Osaka.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Nara.

This empress is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Osaka.

This empress is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Nara.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Osaka.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Yamashina-ku, Kyoto.

This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Shiga.

It stood in the parish of Lumo, on a site known as Gernikazarra, beside a small shrine.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

The image illustrates a Jain text and includes a small shrine with an icon of a Jain savior, known as a Jina or Tirthankara, on the right.

The 1, 000 year old pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is known in English as the Way of St. James and in Spanish as the Camino de Santiago.

At this shrine, a ceremony known as Shikinen Sengu is held every 20 years to honor Amaterasu.

Of the conflicts between the Bábís and the establishment, the first and best known took place in Mázandarán, at the remote shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí, about 22 kilometres southeast of Bárfarúsh ( Babol ).

The shrine has been known as " Menelaion " ( the shrine of Menelaus ), and it was believed to be the spot where Helen was buried alongside Menelaus.

The shrine became known as the Dome of the Rock ( Qubbat as-Sakhra قبة الصخرة ).

The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting ( Polish: Jasnogórski Cudowny obraz Najświętszej Maryi Panny Niepokalanie Poczętej ), a shrine to the Virgin Mary.

This chamber, known as the Lubinus Crypt ( named after the mid-6th century Bishop of Chartres ), is lower than the rest of the crypt and may have been the shrine of a local saint, prior to the church's rededication to the Virgin.

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

... and for your husband I command a shrine to be constructed in the middle of the city ; he will be known for him who killed him, under the name of ' sacred Poseidon '; but among the citizens, when the sacrificial cattle are slaughtered, he shall also be called ' Erechtheus '.

He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Jacawitz was overlooked by a shrine to the god placed on a neighbouring peak, this shrine was known as Pa Tohil.

There, at Abydos, Nephthys joined Isis as a mourner in the shrine known as the Osireion.

Don Pedro Jaramillo, a Mexican-born curandero known as " The Healer of Los Olmos ," was buried in Falfurrias in 1907 and is venerated at a shrine there.

The city is also home to the al-Askari Mosque, containing the mausoleums of the Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams, respectively, as well as the shrine of Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the " Hidden Imam ", who is the twelfth and final Imam of the Shia of the Ja ' farī Madhhab.

As a direct descendant of Kublai Khan ( r. 1260-1294 ), Mandukhai had him ascend to the throne at the Royal shrine kept by the Chakhar and he became known by the title " Dayan Khan " ( meaning the " Great Khan of the Great Yuan ", from 大元可汗 ), although one of the editors of chronicle in the 17th century mis-interpreted the meaning of Dayan of Dayan Khan as " whole " instead of the " Great Yuan ").

Almost every house in Bangkok has a miniature shrine housing this tutelary deity, known as a spirit house.

* Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make it known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred.

The last grave, which also became a shrine later, lies in the western cemetery of the town and it is known by Sheik Ismael.

Mel Fisher ( August 21, 1922 – December 19, 1998 ) was an American treasure hunter best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha named after a shrine in Madrid for protection.

The 1992 film Immaculate Conception by Jamil Dehlavi is based upon the culture-clash between a western Jewish couple seeking fertility at a Karachi shrine known to be blessed by a sufi-fakir called Gulab Shah and the group of Pakistani eunuchs who guard it.