a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.

any place or object hallowed by its history or associations

a historic shrine.

any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.

a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.

to enshrine.

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altar , chapel , church , enshrinement , grave , hallowed place , holy place , mausoleum , reliquary , sacred place , sanctorium , sanctuary , sanctum , sepulcher , temple , sacrarium , adytum , box , case , container , gleam , grotto , hallow , memorial , monument , naos , sanctum sanctorum , tabernacle , tomb