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The UNESCO World Heritage Site Shrines and Temples of Nikkō encompasses 103 buildings or structures and the natural setting around them. It is located in Nikkō , Tochigi Prefecture , Japan . The buildings belong to two Shinto shrines ( Futarasan Shrine and Tōshō-gū ) and one Buddhist temple ( Rinnō-ji ).
Kami Shrine (Drala Mountain Center) Red Feather Lakes: Amaterasu-Ōmikami (天照大神), Toyouke-Omikami, Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (猿田彦大神・天鈿女命) Hawaii: Daijingū Temple of Hawaii (ハワイ大神宮) Honolulu (天照皇大神) Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami [1] (天之御中主神) Amenominakanushi-no-Kami
Katirkamam Murugan temple, Kathirgama; Syria ... Shrine of Saint Wite at the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum, England ...
Analogously, temples all over Japan adopted tutelary kami (鎮守/鎮主, chinju) and built temple shrines (寺社, jisha) to house them. [62] After the forcible separation of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines ( shinbutsu bunri ) ordered by the new government in the Meiji period , the connection between the two religions was officially ...
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. “Because of the Goshuin, shrines have become closer to me, but I don’t consider this a religious activity,” Nomura said after ...
The Ise Shrine (Japanese: 伊勢神宮, Hepburn: Ise Jingū), located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu.Also known simply as Jingū (神宮), Ise Shrine is a shrine complex composed of many Shinto shrines centered on two main shrines, Naikū (内宮) and Gekū (外宮).
Shrine of Qubrat Hamran, South Arabia, dating from the 15th or 16th century. Shrines are found in many religions. As distinguished from a temple, a shrine usually houses a particular relic or cult image, which is the object of worship or veneration. A shrine may also be constructed to set apart a site which is thought to be particularly holy ...