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The shrine was visited by Erasmus around 1512, by which time the shrine was reputed to have been built by angels in the late eleventh century as a replica of the Virgin's house in Nazareth, [3] and he satirised the devotion of pilgrims at the site in the 1526 edition of his Colloquies. [4] [5] The shrine was destroyed by Henry VIII in 1538. The ...
The Shrine of Husayn's Head was a shrine built by the Fatimids on a hilltop adjacent to Ascalon that was reputed to have held the head of Husayn ibn Ali between c. 906 CE and 1153 CE. [83] It was described as the most magnificent building in the ancient city, [84] [85] and developed into the most important and holiest Shi'a site in Palestine. [86]
The main part of the mausoleum, the shrine and tomb of Zaynab, is a large chamber topped with a conical ribbed dome. [5] The dome's structure is similar to the dome seen on the Mashhad Imam Awn Al-Din in Mosul. The tomb itself is a stone sarcophagus with Quranic inscriptions on it. [6] Next to Sayyidah Zaynab's mausoleum is a musalla.
The entire Suwa shrine complex consists of four main shrines grouped into two sites: the Upper Shrine or Kamisha (上社), comprising the Maemiya (前宮, former shrine) and the Honmiya (本宮, main shrine), and the Lower Shrine or Shimosha (下社), comprising the Harumiya (春宮, spring shrine) and the Akimiya (秋宮, autumn shrine).
An inscription by Aditya I (reign: c. 871–907 CE) in the Naganathaswami (Shiva) Temple of Thirunageswaram - part of a now ruined shrine - suggests that the shrine may be dedicated to Meiporul Nayanar. Another theory suggests that the record is talking about a school or monastery in honour of the Nayanar, who lived in the period close to Aditya I.
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The Bhars were defeated with a great slaughter, and the Súrajbans occupied their territory. Sudah Rai established a fort on the spot where he had seen the prophetic vision; and included therein the ruined shrine, in grateful commemoration of the divine interposition in his fortunes which had occurred there. [5]
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