As the ritual closed and the evening wound to an end, attendees enjoyed a community potluck and friendly conversation. With the scent of incense still hanging heavy in the air, ritual participants ...

The sanctuary in St. Mary’s Church, Tarbert has a very colourful wall montage of St. Brigid and the traditional St. Brigid’s ...

Greek mythology is full of the gods’ exploits, and surprising details abound in ancient art. Greek pottery ... world and the private or sacred space represented by the home altar inside. So these ...

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure. The findings were published in the journal Medieval Archaeology.

The place of worship, carved into the rock near Temple Mount, is made up of eight rooms with an altar, a sacred standing ... Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or “high places.” ...

An ancient pagan worship place ... carved into the rock near Temple Mount and is made up of eight rooms with an altar, a sacred standing stone (massebah) and presses for olive oil and wine.

Starting in 1961, a sculpture by revered Spokane artist Harold Balazs graced the wall behind the altar at the Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church as a symbol of a timeless expression of faith. Now, ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking ... in front of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture, which was attacked with ...