household altar
Domestic worship spot
A household altar is a dedicated space within a home for religious or spiritual practice—a shelf, table, or corner where sacred objects are arranged for prayer, meditation, or ritual.
Common across many traditions, from Catholic home shrines to Buddhist family altars to ancestor veneration in East Asian cultures.
The altar typically holds items meaningful to the household's faith: candles, incense, images of deities, photographs of deceased relatives, offerings of food or flowers.
She lit a candle at the household altar each morning.
- shrineSacred devotional place
- sacred spaceArea reserved for worship
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- burning incenseCombusting aromatic substances
- candlesWax lights with wicks
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- home shrinesmandir, sacred space, ofrenda, prayer room, ancestral hall
- shrineswayside shrine, ancestral shrine, jinja, haiden, forest shrine
- Shintokami, torii, jinja, shintai, kagura
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Bishop's principal church
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