Sentences with phrase «holy shrines»

Bringing sun - seekers to Saudi beaches could transform a tourism industry that relies almost solely on Muslim pilgrims visiting holy shrines in Mecca and Medina.

According to a report in Britain's Telegraph, Bishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini of the Calabrian Diocese of Locri - Gerace has written an open letter to the bosses of the» Ndrangheta — the Calabrian Mafia — «imploring them to stop using holy shrines for their initiation....

You know what Omid, the mullahs do not wish to recognize Bahais at the same time they feel jealous that bahias have a pacific pilgrimage to Israel and they can practice their faith there and visit theri holy shrine.

Northeast India is dotted with numerous famous holy shrines, monasteries, lakes and hills.

Reuters: Israel considers ban for far - right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine An Israeli panel weighed a request on Sunday to disqualify a candidate of a powerful far - right party from running in a January 22 election for alluding in a speech to the possibility of seeing one of Islam's holiest shrines in Jerusalem «blown up.»

«And then there are the Korok puzzle tourist traps,» Raine adds, referring to the game's little environmental puzzles, where players are rewarded with magic beans for, say, putting apples in front of holy shrines.

The era of the British Raj is reflected in the architectural heritage of Lutyens» New Delhi and the summer hill station capital, Shimla, contrasting with Sikhism's most holy shrine, the spectacular Golden Temple at Amritsar.

Saudi Arabia - birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines - does not officially recognize Israel.

The USA government just decided not to take any chances that OBL; s grave would be discovered and then become a holy shrine for a bunch of inhumans.

It is known fact that Muslims build their holy shrines on the ashes of their defeated enemies» holy shrines.

As Reuters notes: «Saudi Arabia — birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest shrines — does not recognize Israel.

Celebrated in the heart of the family rather than at some holy shrine such as Shechem, Gilgal or Bethel, this feast recalled and made present the saving acts it commemorated.

Likewise, in the Departmental Archives of the Haute - Marne I found a lot of interesting material on de Gaulle's home in the village of Colombey — especially after his death, when the site became a holy shrine, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

One of the star attractions was a computer program called Muslims in Space, which calculates when spacefaring Muslims should pray and, using spherical trigonometry, discerns the direction of the Ka'aba, the holy shrine in Mecca that Muslims face during prayer.

Many of them had spent the night inside Islam's holiest shrine, curling up on wool carpets in the Grand Mosque's multistory labyrinth of nearly a thousand rooms.

The dramatic and immensely consequential story of the violent takeover of Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, by Muslim fundamentalists in 1979.

The same morning — the first of a new Muslim century — hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims prepare for Friday prayers in front of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sept. 9, 2016.

When the Batur Volcano destroyed the temple only the holiest shrine survived which was moved up to the rim of the caldera.

Founded by Guru Nanak in the 15th century as a reaction against the Hindu caste system, its holy shrine is the spectacular Golden Temple.

The Diadema Amphitheater is being considered as a holy shrine for rock music although some players were concerned about the ink damaging machinery but it appears to have already been fixed.