Although City churches are designed as spiritual oases, their doors open into the heart of London.

While Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theater at Broadway and 74th Street are still used for performances, most of the rest have been transformed from pleasure domes to spiritual oases.

However, God granted me safe passage and I reached unscathed this spiritual oasis two months later.

The horizontal and vertical lines prevalent in the hotel's collection symbolize the delicate strings of the pipa, evoking the image of a spiritual oasis.

For all the fear and danger of his days at Arx Fidei, the nightly retreats to the garden had provided a spiritual oasis.

Anthony J. DallaVilla, the rector, said the cathedral draws so many people because it is "a spiritual oasis."

In the span of thirty years Swamiji has developed this place into a spiritual oasis.

"I think the garden is increasingly an escape, a spiritual oasis from the cement jungle," she said.

And as she reminiscences about wars in other places, which have drawn away the young men of the village where livestock is still herded through the winding stone streets, the place feels like a spiritual oasis.