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A sacred space, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, holy place or holy site is a location which is deemed to be sacred or hallowed. The sacredness of a natural feature may accrue through tradition or be granted through a blessing. One or more religions may consider sacred locations to be of special significance. Often, such locations either are or become the home of sanctuaries, shrines, places of worship, or locations conducive to meditation. Regardless of construction or use, these areas may have a variety of ritual or taboo associations – including limitations on visitors or on allowed actions within the space. Such places may become the focus of pilgrimage, drawing pilgrims from great distances, or simply locations of significance for the local populace.
A sacredspace, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, holy place or holy site is a location which is deemed to be sacred or hallowed...
tabernacles has sometimes been considered sacred. The concept applies also to sacredspaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens, pagodas and holy...
circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacredspace, or will...
SacredSpace Music is the third album of new-age composer Constance Demby. All music is composed by Constance Demby Musical Constance Demby – hammered...
gaṇacakra: The feast is an esoteric ritual that unfolds in many stages. The sacredspace for the ceremony is demarcated by geometric designs drawn on the ground...
A sacred tree or holy tree is a tree which is considered to be sacred, or worthy of spiritual respect or reverence. Such trees appear throughout world...
Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various...
Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion;...
or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacredspace dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon...
practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacredspace and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions...
(2000). Sacred Gardens: A Guide to the Traditions, Meaning and Design of Beautiful and Tranquil Places. Piatkus. ISBN 9780749918309. SacredSpace: Religion...
Ganges River and to create more space to prevent crowding. On 13 December 2021, Modi inaugurated the corridor with a sacred ceremony. A press release by...
Religious tourism, spiritual tourism, sacred tourism, or faith tourism, is a type of tourism with two main subtypes: pilgrimage, meaning travel for religious...
Kerameikos and from there the participants walked to Eleusis, along the Sacred Way (Ἱερὰ Ὁδός, Hierá Hodós). Bahá'u'lláh decreed pilgrimage to two places...
Hierotopy (from Ancient Greek: ἱερός, sacred + Ancient Greek: τόπος, place, space) is the creation of sacredspaces viewed as a special form of human creativity...
Sacred mountains are central to certain religions, and are usually the subjects of many legends. For many, the most symbolic aspect of a mountain is the...
sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples. Many cultures devoted considerable resources to their sacred...
with his linear time. He could not return to cyclic time and re-enter sacredspace though its myths. [...] Just here, as Eliade sees it, a new religious...
is formed upon a disk which may be used either upon an altar or as a sacredspace of its own. The first documents to depict pentacles were the 1500s grimoires...
and considers all of Israel to be Yahweh's "sacredspace". Theologians likewise argue that the "sacredspace" is any place where Yahweh "manifested" to...
cover their shoulders, particularly when entering a church or other sacredspace. In Islamic traditions, the definition of awrah is similar to the definition...
events he observed within a predetermined sacredspace (templum). The templum corresponded to the heavenly space above. The augur's decisions were based...
early music of our time is written for God in a sacredspace," she said. "So sacred music and sacredspace music—that was my favorite thing about music....
such as a sanctuary, holy grove, or holy precinct. A temenos enclosed a sacredspace called a hieron. It was usually surrounded by a wall, ditch, or line...
(underground hallway or corridor), fanum (sacred or holy place), or even templum (a temple or a sacredspace). In their basic form, mithraea were entirely...
2023. Retrieved 2 July 2015. Roger D. Woodard (2006). Indo-European SacredSpace: Vedic and Roman Cult. University of Illinois Press. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-0252092954...