shrine
noun
[ ʃrʌɪn ]
• a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction.
• "the medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of St James"
Similar:
holy place,
temple,
church,
chapel,
tabernacle,
altar,
sanctuary,
sanctum,
stupa,
tope,
dargah,
marabout,
tirtha,
chorten,
sacrarium,
nymphaeum,
fane,
martyry,
ciborium,
feretory,
shrine
verb
• enshrine.
• "a goddess shrined in every tree"
Origin:
Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’.
