It consists of a main building and two round towers within an enormous temenos or sacred area.

In 5th or 6th century, a first Christian church was built on this probably pre-Roman sacred area.

Right now, mining interests are trying to open a sacred area in the mountains for exploration and development.

The hill is known as a sacred area which no men are allowed to enter.

And this porch was a sacred area, strictly for the men.

The Adroanzi were nature gods of specific rivers, trees and other sacred wild areas.

His tone suggested that he held the area sacred to some private and inextinguishable sorrow.

Others, considering the area sacred, did not want anything built there at all or wanted the entire site to become a memorial.

They often mark an important or sacred area, or point to an important place.

In Japan, the borders around shrines, between the sacred and human area, are clearly marked.