home altar
Personal worship space
A home altar is a dedicated space in a residence for religious devotion, meditation, or spiritual practice.
It typically holds sacred objects—candles, images, statues, or offerings—arranged on a table, shelf, or corner.
Home altars appear across traditions: Catholic shrines to the Virgin Mary, Buddhist meditation spaces, Hindu puja rooms, Día de los Muertos ofrendas honoring the dead.
She lights incense at her home altar each morning.
- candlesWax lights with wicks
- votive candlesSmall ritual offering candles
- prayerAddress to deity
- daily practiceRegular repeated activity
- offeringSomething presented or given
ancestor veneration · family photos · folk religion · spirit house · statues · religious icons · meditation · puja · devotion · cross · light · sacred space · consecration · natural materials · incense · household gods · holy books · sacred objects
- Dia de los Muertosofrenda, calavera, sugar skull, sugar skulls, marigolds
- altarscommunion table, ofrenda
- Catholic Familyfamily prayer, Catholic school, Catholic education, Catholic values, religious education
- Chinese folk religionfolk religion, folk beliefs, ancestral worship, Chinese temples, joss sticks
- home devotionfamily prayer, morning prayer, evening prayer, daily devotion, family devotions
- home shrinesmandir, sacred space, ofrenda, prayer room, ancestral hall
home altarcathedral
Bishop's principal church
temple · church · synagogue · mosque · church altar
home altarutility room
Household work space
entertainment center · living room · kitchen · den · workbench