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  2. Home altar - Wikipedia

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    A home altar or family altar is a shrine kept in the home of some Western Christian families used for Christian prayer and family worship. Home altars often contain a cross or crucifix, an image of Jesus Christ, a copy of the Bible (especially a Family Bible), a breviary and/or other prayer book, a daily devotional, and prayer beads, among ...

  3. Kamidana - Wikipedia

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    Worship at the kamidana typically consists of the offering of simple prayers, food (e.g., rice, fruit, water) and flowers. [2] Before worshipping at the kamidana, it is ritually important for family members to cleanse their hands or mouth. Kamidana can also be found in some traditional Japanese martial arts dojos.

  4. Altar - Wikipedia

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    The term movable altar or portable altar is now used of a full-scale structural altar, with or without an inserted altar stone, that can be moved. [21] (298) Movable altars include the free-standing wooden tables without altar stone, placed in the choir away from the east wall, favoured by churches in the Reformed tradition.

  5. Shrine - Wikipedia

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    In unofficial, colloquial Catholic use, the term "shrine" is a niche or alcove in churches, especially larger ones, used by parishioners when praying privately. They were formerly also called devotional altars, since before the Second Vatican Council they contained small side altars or bye-altars.

  6. Ten Commandments Monument (Nigeria) - Wikipedia

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    The Ten Commandments Monument is installed on the New Jerusalem compound, in Dwoi (also spelled Doi), Jos South, Plateau State, Nigeria.It was erected before 2017 but formally dedicated in December 2021, with an altar and an open-air amphitheater with a capacity for 5,800 people. [1]

  7. Altar (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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    The rite of Dedication of a church and of the altar points out that the celebration of the Eucharist is "the principal and the most ancient part of the whole rite, because the celebration of the eucharist is in the closest harmony with the rite of the dedication of a church", and "the eucharist, which sanctifies the hearts of those who receive ...

  8. Christian prayer - Wikipedia

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    Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice. [1] Christian prayers are diverse: they can be completely spontaneous, or read entirely from a text, such as from a breviary, which contains the canonical hours that are said at fixed prayer times.

  9. Altar (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    The altar (illustration from Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia (1906–1913)) The description of the altar in Solomon's Temple gives it larger dimensions (2 Chronicles 4:1. Comp. 1 Kings 8:22, 8:64; 9:25), and was made wholly of brass, covering a structure of stone or earth. Because this altar was larger than the one used in the ...