sacred images
Holy visual representations
Sacred images are visual representations of religious figures, deities, or holy subjects—icons, statues, paintings used in worship or devotion.
Different traditions treat them differently: some venerate them as conduits to the divine, others reject them as idolatry.
The phrase often appears in debates about iconoclasm: The reformers destroyed sacred images throughout the cathedral.
- totemSpiritual clan symbol
- prayer matRug for ritual kneeling
- votive candleSmall ritual offering light
- iconPictorial screen symbol
- icon paintingReligious artwork on panels
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- Buddhist objectsBuddha, Buddha statues, prayer wheels, prayer flag, prayer flags
- church itemscrucifix, altarpiece, altar cloth, altar candles, monstrance
- iconographysymbol, symbols, halo, halos, nimbus
- sacred legendsmiracle stories, hagiography, medieval legend, miraculous healings, miraculous cures
- sacred objectsrelic, relics, reliquaries, reliquary, holy relic
- Tibetan BuddhismBuddha, Tibet, Dalai Lama, lama, lamas
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