Sacred place

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A sacred place (from the Latin sacer , “holy”) describes a place that can be used by religious communities for sacred , ritual or cultic acts, such as worship or offerings , or has a corresponding meaning. If these sites are built structurally, then these structures are called sacred buildings .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Traulsen: The sacred asylum in the Old World: On the protective function of the saint from King Solomon to the Codex Theodosianus . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148170-4 .