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Example sentences for: shrines
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Like the shrines, the bridge is renewed every two decades.
The Kamakura Municipal Museum of Modern Art houses a collection of Japanese oil paintings, watercolors, wood block prints, and sculpture.The Kokuhokan (National Treasure Museum) has a fine collection of objects from various Kamakura temples and shrines, including some excellent 13th-century paintings.
Indeed, so sacred are the Ise shrines that, despite the relatively peaceful coexistence of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, Buddhist monks and nuns were banned from entering the precincts prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
In the late 19 th century, Serbian nationalists had built up national myths about the heroics of Prince Lazar and cast Kosovo's status as a Jerusalem-like holy land populated with Orthodox religious shrines.
Benedicto Cuesta among others, is that the range took its name from penitente chapels or shrines in its foothills consecrated to the Redeeming Blood of Christ at a time when in the Spanish empire such chapels were so numerous that Blood of Christ was practically synonymous with chapel .