Art and Sacred Places is a UK-based national charity in London working in the field of commissioning visual art for sacred places. Its work includes both...
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A sacred space, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, holy place or holy site is a location which is deemed to be sacred or hallowed...
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Religious art is a visual representation of religious ideologies and their relationship with humans. Sacred art directly relates to religious art in the...
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Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions. It is associated with the belief...
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The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a 2017 absurdist psychological horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, who also co-wrote the...
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property is often ascribed to objects (a "sacred artifact" that is venerated and blessed), or places ("sacred ground"). French sociologist Émile Durkheim...
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Sacred mountains are central to certain religions, and are usually the subjects of many legends. For many, the most symbolic aspect of a mountain is the...
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King’s College London and Art and Sacred Places) – at the National Gallery, the Tower of London, Methodist Central Hall, and St Paul’s Cathedral; in 2017 in...
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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Latin: Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart...
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that plays a central role in the art of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. In Asian art, a lotus throne is a stylized lotus...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Persian: دانهی انجیر معابد, romanized: Dāne-ye anjīr-e ma'ābed; French: Les Graines du figuier sauvage; German: Die Saat des...
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Alex Grey (category Columbus College of Art and Design alumni)
and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors...
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The Sacred Valley of the Incas (Spanish: Valle Sagrado de los Incas; Quechua: Willka Qhichwa), or the Urubamba Valley, is a valley in the Andes of Peru...
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Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, cult prostitution, and religious prostitution are purported rites consisting of paid intercourse performed in...
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February to July 2004. Commissioned by Art and Sacred Places, it was the joint winner of the 2007/2008 ACE Award for ‘Art in a Religious Context’. Whilst she...
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history of religions and anthropology, a sacred enclosure refers to any structure intended to separate two spaces: a sacred space and a profane space. Generally...
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of shrines and temples. Sacred groves are places of yatra (pilgrimage) in Indian-origin religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Indian...
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Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe (section Sacred places)
"Contestation of 'the holy places in the Zimbabwean Religious Landscape': A study of the Johane Masowe Chishanu yeNyenyedzi Church's sacred places". HTS Teologiese...
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City-Designated Landmarks, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1881 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic women's...
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Sacré-Cœur, Paris (redirect from Sacred Heart Basilica, Paris)
Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur...
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The Sacred Art of Stealing is a satirical crime novel by the Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre. It is the author's seventh book and is a stand-alone...
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St Paul's, Bow Common (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
February to July 2004. Commissioned by Art and Sacred Places, it was the joint winner of the 2007/2008 ACE Award for ‘Art in a Religious Context’. On 7 November...
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Temple The Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas is located in three places in two districts of Karnataka, there are two temples in Hassan district and one temple...
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 book...
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Five Holy Wounds (redirect from Sacred Wounds)
In Catholic tradition, the Five Holy Wounds, also known as the Five Sacred Wounds or the Five Precious Wounds, are the five piercing wounds that Jesus...
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Halo (religious iconography) (redirect from Halo (art))
surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacred figures, and has at various periods also...
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An Australian Aboriginal sacred site is a place deemed significant and meaningful by Aboriginal Australians based on their beliefs. It may include any...
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Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent, generally expressive of technical proficiency...
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Religious tourism (redirect from Sacred travel)
sacred tourism, or faith tourism, is a type of tourism with two main subtypes: pilgrimage, meaning travel for religious or spiritual purposes, and the...
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Contemporary art Center, Malmö. Legend Coming True, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris. 2003 The Role of a Lifetime, Art and Sacred Places, St. Peters...
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