site of pagan worship

He assumes that the sites were chosen in the early middle ages by geolocation, or that they perpetuate the sites of pagan worship.

Spanish Conquistadors called it infiernito, or "little hell," because they thought it was diabolical and labeled it as a site of Pagan worship.

At the close of the 12th century, Veøy gamle kirke, a church dedicated to St. Peter, was constructed over an ancient site of pagan worship.

While the pope interpreted this as a sign that God was appeased, this did not prevent Gregory from destroying more sites of pagan worship in Rome.

Kiltullagh is thought to be a Fransiscan monastery built between 1432 and 1441 on the site of an earlier church - which was itself probably built on a site of pagan worship.

In OT history this valley was a place of evil practices (including human sacrifices) and the site of pagan worship which was destroyed by King Josiah 2 Kings 23:10.

The fountain of Cassiodorus A spring situated at the Coscia di Staletti on the grounds of the monastery of Cassiodorus, with a grotto, formerly a site of pagan worship and eventually Christianized by the addition of two large crosses.

This is because the original church on the site-a small wattle and daub structure, later succeeded by a wooden church built from the oak trees prevalent in the Forest of Anderida (a pattern repeated at many villages in the Sussex Weald)-occupied a pre-Christian site of pagan worship.

A number of towns and villages, such as Weedon, Wyville and Harrowden have terms like ealh, weoh and hearh incorporated into them, indicating that they were places used for worship by the pagan Anglo-Saxons, and from using this toponymy, sixty sites of pagan worship have been identified across the country.