See also: Sanctuary (homonymy)

A sanctuary (of sanctus holy) is generally a building built on a site particularly crowned. It can be prohibited to the laymen, unlike a traditional Temple built to be a place accessible in particular to faithful, but not only with them. The sanctuaries thus are often associated with the idea of Pèlerinage.

The religious traditions having founded public places of devotion often called sanctuaries include:

• With the Japan, a sanctuary (or ja 神社 jinja ), is a crowned place devoted to a divinity or in which one preserves a Relique crowned or a icon object of veneration on behalf of the believers.
• the Christian Churches, the such Church Anglican, the Roman Catholic church and the orthodoxe Church, (the majority of the Protestant Églises protested historically against the Culte of the saints);
• the Hindouisme;
• the Buddhism;
• the Shintoïsme;
• the Islam (mainly Shiite).

List sanctuaries

Europe

Ancient Greece

• Sanctuary panhellenic
• Athens
• Claros
• Délos
• Delphes
• Éleusis
• Magnesia of the Meander
• Némée
• Olympie
• Sanctuary of the Large Gods of Samothrace AdQ
• Sanctuary of Artémis Orthia to Sparte

Gaulle

• Gallo-Roman Sanctuary of Large with Large

• federal Sanctuary of the three Gaules to Lugdunum (current Lyon)

Italy

• Sanctuary of Vicoforte

Jinja shinto

• Sanctuary of Itsukushima (in Japanese ja 厳島神社, Itsukushima-Jinja )

• Meiji Jingu (ja 明治神宮, meiji jingū )
• Sanctuary of Yasukuni (ja 靖国神社, yasukuni jinja or the temple of the country alleviated )

Sanctuary hindouist

• Sanctuary of Erawan (Thai: HT ศาลพระพรหม, marked San Phra Phrom)

• Sanctuary Semi-sön, registered with the world heritage of UNESCO since 1999 n°949

Other directions

The sanctuary term indicates sometimes a Natural reserve

• the Sanctuaire of the wild life of Mount Abu,
• Sanctuaire of Govind Pashu Vihar

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