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Shinto shrine
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Japanese shrine of the Shinto religion
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- Template:Infobox Shinto shrine
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- Commons category
- Shinto shrines
- topic's main category
- Category:Shinto shrines
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- 神社
- OpenStreetMap tag
- building=shrine
- different from
- Jinja
- has list
- list of Shinto shrines
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Encyclopedic overview
Two women praying in front of a shrine
A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja; archaic: shinsha, meaning: 'kami shrine') is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shinto shrine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.