Nachi no Dengaku is a Japanese folk performing art with a deep connection to Kumano Sanzan, a sacred site in Nachisanku.
Now the couple is readying for Friday, when they travel to Mecca to circle the Kaaba, the most sacred site in Islam.
The year 2000 holds an even greater significance for this sacred site, as the Olympic torch will leave from the rock in June.
The Cross Bath is a Georgian building and is recognised as a sacred site by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature's Sacred Land Project.
The temples of Abu Simbel were officially reopened in 1968 while the sacred site they had occupied for more than 3, 000 years disappeared beneath Lake Nasser.
In two weeks, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host the Annapolis conference where together with her European and Arab counterparts, she will exert enormous pressure on the Olmert government to agree to the establishment of a jihadist Palestinian state in Israel's heartland with its capital in Jerusalem and its sovereignty extending over Judaism's most sacred site, the Temple Mount.
Mayan priests say they will purify the sacred archaeological site to rid it of any "bad spirits" after Bush is there.
Jump in your car and head about five miles up the highway to the Waimea Valley (59-864 Kamehameha Highway, waimeavalley.net ), a site sacred to native Hawaiians.
During the session, armed groups stepped up their attacks on the World Heritage site and destroyed sacred tombs.
Travellers planning to ascend Machu Picchu often book at least one night of lodging in Aguas Calientes, the closest Sacred Valley town to the site.
They argued the site was "sacred" because landing gear from one of the hijacked Boeing 767 jets had punctured the roof of the building on Sept. 11.
The falls, which can be viewed from a bridge or a covered platform, are considered sacred, having been a ceremonial site for centuries.
The buffer zones in the master plan are designed to protect core areas in Lumbini, including the Sacred Garden, and insulate the site from external noises and disturbances.
At the rainforest-shrouded Chishimba Falls on the Luombe River in the Kasama District, three successive falls tumble into one another at a site that is revered as sacred by the Bemba people.
Some families wanted the site's 16 acres -- a "sacred space, " in the words of many -- left empty, a belief initially shared by Giuliani.
Indeed one well-known monument site, known as Eflatun Pinar, holds a sacred pool that "is fed by a spring beneath the pool itself, " write Yigit Erbil and Alice Mouton in an article that was published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
Now is a fantastic time to visit, to see the Holy Site of the Inca, Machu Picchu, but also to explore the sites in Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and even Lima, which is slowly turning around.
Built as the ultimate expression of love, the Taj has become a site of pilgrimage, a place where visitors bring their dreams and joys and longings, transforming it into sacred space.
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