A "family altar" refers to a designated area or a specific time set aside in a household where family members come together to pray, worship, or engage in spiritual activities as a united family. Full definition
This event featured personal family altars, music and traditional food. (crowleytheater.org)
This is one reason why the passing of the family altar is much to be regretted, for when it was vitally maintained, it not only enriched the spiritual lives of its participants but bound the family together with ties seldom approximated in our modern individualistic living. (religion-online.org)
Injunctions to restore the family altar, or even grace at meals, ought to be made with due concern for the circumstances. (religion-online.org)