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Shinto shrine

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Also known as jinja, shrine, jinjya

Japanese shrine of the Shinto religion

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
shrine
Religion
Shinto
Country
Japan
Image
KandaMyojin8834.jpg
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Unicode character
Commons category
Shinto shrines
topic's main category
Category:Shinto shrines
Commons gallery
神社
OpenStreetMap tag
building=shrine
different from
Jinja
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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.

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