shrinenoun [ C ]
uk/ʃraɪn/us/ʃraɪn/a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object:
Islam's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
a special place in which you remember and praise someone who has died, especially someone famous:
She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.
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Religious buildings & places
- abbey
- ashram
- caliphate
- cathedral
- chapel
- friary
- gurdwara
- hermitage
- house of God
- kirk
- monastery
- mosque
- nunnery
- pagoda
- parsonage
- stupa
- synagogue
- tabernacle
- United Church of Canada
- vicarage
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Remembering people who have died