Sacred Places

 

Places of Worship

A house shrine often takes up less than a cubic foot area, and is placed on a pedestal or a table. It usually consists of one or more icons of gods, demigods or ancestors, and a small brazier for burning offerings.

A roadside altar is usually slab of stone (often marble) with a niche where an icon is kept, and protruding altar where sacrifice is placed.

A chapel is a room-sized temple, which may be a small building or a room or hall in a greater construction, or even as an annex to another temple. A chapel has at most a single priest in attendance, and usually none.

A temple is an entire building dedicated to worship of (a) god(s). This structure has one or more priests, and often assistants/acolytes as well.

A fane is a title often used for the most important places of worship, their construction time may run into decades. Dozens of members ot the clergy are usually present at all times.

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