Jerusalem is a city which is sacred to Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
The eagle is a sacred animal in many North American Indian cultures.
The explorers died mysteriously after entering the sacred tombs of the ancient Pharaohs.
Visitors are asked to remove their hats and
shoes when entering the sacred spaces of the mosque.
Stonehenge is believed to have been a sacred site for the people who lived in England hundreds of years ago.
Cows are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, and there are many cows wandering the streets in India.
Thousands
of Muslims make a sacred pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca every year.
Eugene Debs once observed that the rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
Poet Walt Whitman once wrote that if anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
In writing the
Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson originally wrote, "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal."
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Paula Gunn Allen once wrote that for the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
Religious rites develop as rules of conduct prescribing how people are expected to act in the presence of the sacred.
In Christianity, sacred objects include the cross, the Bible and holy water.
I have no religion, so for me, a sacred site is not a church or a place of some holy person, but the forest or some beautiful natural site.
The ancient Egyptians believed that cats were sacred animals.
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the few shrines in the world simultaneously sacred to three religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
In Tuscany, olive oil and bread are sacred gifts, and it is a grave sin to waste either of them.
The head is considered a sacred part of the body in India, and should not be touched by other people.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all based on the belief in one God, and respect for sacred books that record God's teachings.
The words of the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, were collected together during the lifetime of Muhammad.
The most ancient sacred texts of the Hindu religion are written in Sanskrit, and are called the Vedas.
Musical innovations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries strongly affected the previously conservative category of sacred music.
During the sixteenth century, expressions of religious sentiment achieved a passionate intensity in the sacred music of Spain.
Discussion question: What are some sites that are sacred to the religions of your culture?
Find someone who has visited a sacred site in his/her country.