Religion

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Sacred site, sacred ground, sacred space, holy ground, or holy place refers to a location which is deemed to be sacred or hallowed. This may be a natural feature or granted through a blessing. One or more religions may consider these locations to be of special significance. Often, such locations either are or become the home of sanctuaries, shrines, places of worship, or locations conducive to meditation. Regardless of construction or use, these areas may have a variety of ritual or taboo associations including limitations on visitors or allowed actions within the space. Such places may be the focus of pilgrimage, drawing pilgrims from great distances, or simply locations of significance for the local populace. religion monasteries church chappel

Religion is a social–cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.  however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. 

Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or “some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life”. Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred scriptures, and symbols a