shrine

as in sanctuary
a place that is considered sacred (as within a religion) for centuries pilgrims have traveled to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury, England

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Recent Examples of shrine The Waldorf-Astoria Reborn Considered as shrine to all things Art Deco, Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria has just reopened after an eight-year restoration. Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025 Ed boarded up that section of the home, keeping it as an untouched shrine to his mother, per Investigation Discovery. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 In this début novel, a former history professor in Mumbai encounters a mother and her sick baby at a shrine of the Virgin Mary in 1978—a chance meeting that binds the two families together for nearly thirty years. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 Flowers by the roadside complete the shrine. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shrine
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sanctuary
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  • Water from a creek that ran alongside the church's two-story building overflowed and poured into the first-floor sanctuary.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Shrine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrine. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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