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.

In Lilla Ullevi (" little shrine of Ullr ") north of Stockholm archaeologists excavated during 2007 the site of a religious worshiping ground for Ullr ( from 500 to 800 AD ).

A lararium was distinct from the penus (" within "), another shrine where the penates, gods associated with the storerooms, was located.

Her shrine was at Aquae Arnemetiae (" waters of Arnemetia "), which is now Buxton in Derbyshire, England.

Mamre (; ), full Hebrew name Elonei Mamre (" Oaks / Terebinths of Mamre "), refers to a Canaanite cultic shrine dedicated to the supreme, sky god of the Canaanite pantheon, El.

The city's older name, Ōmiya (" big shrine "), was derived from the shrine.

To the southeast of Bani Na ' im is a shrine dedicated to Lot, known as Maqam an-Nabi Yatin (" Shrine of the Truthful Prophet ").

A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house (" enshrine ") one or more Shinto kami.

Although only one word (" shrine ") is used in English, in Japanese Shinto shrines may carry any one of many different, non-equivalent names like gongen ,-gū, jinja, jingū, mori, myōjin ,-sha, taisha, ubusuna or yashiro.

The most remarkable building of the Renaissance period, indeed the only remaining, is the shrine of Santa Maria di Piazza (" Saint Mary of the Square "), also called shrine of the Beata Vergine dell ' Aiuto (" Blessed Virgin of the Help ").

The Tetri Giorgi holiday (" tetrigiorgoba ") was once marked annually on August 14, when many pilgrims from the eastern Georgian provinces attended an overnight feast at the saint's chief shrine – a 14th-century Orthodox Christian church overlooking the village Atsquri in what is now Akhmeta Municipality, Kakheti.

Of special interest is the copper snake with gilded head found in the shrine, perhaps pointing to the biblical Nehushtan ( 2 Kings 18: 4 ) (" a brazen thing ").

Other terms associated to templar structures of Shenism and other religions in China are 宫 gong (" palace "), often used for large temples ( even if mostly Taoist ) built by imperial officials, and 院 yuan, a general term for " sanctuary ", " shrine ".

The Fushimi shrine itself contains smaller shrines, including the Byakko-sha (" white fox shrine ") and the Myōbu-sha (" court lady shrine ").

Thomas Becket's shrine in the Cathedral was demolished and all the gold, silver and jewels were removed to the Tower of London, and Becket's images, name and feasts were obliterated throughout the kingdom, ending the pilgrimages.

Its silver shrine, a masterpiece of Ghiberti, contains the urn with his relics.

Other noteworthy pieces are the longobard stones, the Saint Cumiano tombstone ( 8th century ), tin votive ampullae, the Orpheus ivory shrine and the wrought silver Saint Colunbanus bust.

In the July Prior Vowell assented to the destruction of Walsingham Priory and assisted the king's commissioners in the removal of the figure of Our Lady and many of the gold and silver ornaments and in the general spoliation of the shrine.

Gold and silver from the shrine was taken to London along with the statue of Mary and John ( Jesus ) which was later burnt.

To the east was a small projection, probably for the silver shrine of St Paulinus which was translated there from the old cathedral.

It contains a copy of the Gospels and a Missa Infirorum, and is enclosed in a shrine of bronze with silver plates ornamented with Celtic interlacing.

We have appointed you, with all convenient diligence to repair unto the said cathedral church, and to take away the shrine and bones of that bishop called Saint Richard, with all ornaments to the said shrine belonging, and all other the reliques and reliquaries, the silver, the gold, and all the jewels belonging to said shrine, and that not only shall you see them to be safely and surely conveyed unto our Tower of London there to be bestowed and placed at your arrival, but also ye shall see both the place where the shrine was kept, destroyed even to the ground and all such other images of the said church, where about any notable superstition is used, to be carried and conveyed away, so that our subjects shall by them in no ways be deceived hereafter, but that they, pay to Almighty God and to no earthly creature such honour as is due unto him the Creator.

For a silver-gilt shrine, made from gold and silver supplied by the Chapter, 5ft long, 1ft wide.

The shrine from carved oak wood covered with gilt rolled silver is considered an important mediaeval gold work.

The linga the main deity at the shrine is 60 cm tall and 90 cm in circumference housed in a silver altar.

Although the saga claims that a thankful Guðormr donated a portion of his silver to the shrine of his saintly uncle at Nidaros, it is unlikely that any church would have accepted property known to have been looted from Christians.