And don't for one second think that the Islamists will be happy just snapping the crosses off of every sacred structure in Europe.

Once in Mecca, he went to the Kaaba where he saw a man sitting with his back to the sacred structure and facing him.

Judaism has a tradition of silence in sacred space and in sacred structures.

They were not allowed onto the plateau, where the Dome of the Rock and other sacred Muslim structures stand.

Preservation workers have had to poke huge drainage holes that look as if they were made by artillery shells in the sides of the sacred structure.

Within the walls of this ancient Maya stronghold, facing the gemstone sea and sacred structures built long ago, modern Mexico seems blessed with history.

There are a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures there.

Or for sacred structures you might consider using precious wood, though it might burn if an oil lantern got tum-bled in the quake.

In fact, the V'ornn were headquartered in the city's two most sacred structures.

In contrast to profane space, the site of a hierophany has a sacred structure to which religious man conforms himself.