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Shrines, Cathedrals, and Basilicas Defined - Saints
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Yasavi (Shrine of Ahmed Yasavi) (Khvajeh Ahmad Yasavi)
Shrine built by Timur for his son Jahangir between 1397 and 1399.
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The shrine is located in the city of Turkestan (modern Yasi) in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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A shrine is a building or a place that is dedicated to one particular type of devotion that is limited to commemorating an event or a person. What makes it a shrine is its limited purpose and use.

Shrine
A repository for the relics of a saint. Often in the form of an elaborate tomb embellished with gems and precious metals.
Spandrel
The wedge-shaped area of wall next to the curved 'shoulder' of an arch.

shrines : The Latin word from which the English is taken means a chest, and a shrine was originally a chest in which a relic was kept (reliquary). It was commonly used to mean a sacred image, especially one to which pilgrimages were made.

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A structure of stone or metal in which a relic of a saint was placed.
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An opening or shrine, often containing a statue, framed by a pair of pilasters or columns placed against a wall.
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a building or shrine sacred to the Egyptian god Serapis.
Serekh
a rectangular outline containing the name of a king in the Early Dynastic period of ancient Egypt.

A Camarín is a shrine or chapel set above and behind the High altar in a church, but still visible from the body of the church. They are especially found in Spain and Portugal.
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Lararium - The shrine area in a roman house, usually at the back, where household gods are worshipped and their images housed.
Lateres - Roman bricks. These could be fired clay (coctus) or simply dried mud like adobe (crudus).

There were many shrines built all over the Aztec kingdom. Each had their own special purpose and were located in a special place. For example, one was built to worship the knights and the sun god.

A Sikh temple or shrine is called a Gurudwara, that is, the House of God, the House of the Guru, where the Guru dwells. Its most essential element also known as Shurk is the presence of the Guru.

[from Latin: room, shrine; see cell1]
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feretory A chapel containing the shrine for a saint's relics. Flamboyant The late Gothic style in France, characterized by long wavy tracery designs.

The central roundel shows faithful worshipping at a shrine which has a golden statue of the Virgin and Child. The worshipers include a young boy offering a crutch perhaps in thanks for a cure attributed to the Virgin.

Aedicule - Properly a shrine framed by two columns supporting an entablature and pediment, set in a temple and containing a statue; but also, more loosely, the framing of a door, window or other opening with two columns, ...

FenestrationThe arrangement of windows in a faFeretorySite of the chief shrine of a church, behind the high altar.FerramentaMetal window grid to which glazing, especially stained glass, is secured.

In the early period of monastery and temple building, shrines were sculpted out of the solid rock of cliffs.

The family would have a little family shrine that contained dolls of gods, those were usually placed on top of a table.
The steam bath building was built because Aztec doctors thought that steam baths were therapeutic so each house had one.

Example 1: Renaissance Gardens in Northern Italy, Example 2: The wild garden toriiA Torii is a gateway at the entrance to a Japanese Shinto shrine, and in other derivative locations, sometimes in gardens.

She founded several churches, including the Abbey of Dunfermline, built to enshrine her greatest treasure, a relic of the true Cross. She is buried before the high altar at Dunfermline.
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one of the most astonishing works of the entire period, the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512?-1515, Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France), an enormous polyptych with two layers of painted panels that fold back to reveal an elaborate carved central shrine.

The Aztecs were religious people who believed in human sacrifice, so as shrines were used during worship, the architecture had an impact.

There is a little enamelled shrine of German workmanship in the Victoria and Albert Museum which might almost have been designed for glass; ...

But to the remotest corners of the land, to cathedral, abbey church, collegiate and parish church, there was brought the influence of Gloucester by the countless pilgrims to the shrine of Edward the Second in her choir (Bond, op. cit., VII, 134).

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