Domestic shrine

English king worshipping at the Shrine of Saint Edmund. King and Martyr.

Kudan hill, Yasukuni shrine, a shrine in central Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Kunitoshi, 1881.

Shrine of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1843.

Suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health.

Shindinu rain shrine, Bari, South Africa

Shrine of the Blessed Virgin in an unidentified church in the Netherlands. Engraving by Cornelius Galle.

Fosse Temple showing base of shrine and altar

Taiwan: a roadside shrine. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Wood engraving: shrine of Henry V; by J. Jackson

Henry IV worshipping at the shrine of St. Edmund.

Cache of toilet vessel found on floor of shrine

Pilgrims kneeling before shrine of our Lady of Lourdes.

Clay figure of Ale in a Mbari shrine, Oratta Ibo

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