Shinto shrine

Two women praying in front of a shrine
A torii is a gate that leads to a jinja. This one is in the sea near Itsukushima Shrine.

A Shinto shrine is a sacred place or site where people worship in the Shinto religion. Many Shinto shrines have buildings, gates, and natural areas such as forests and rivers around them. The usual Japanese word for a Shinto shrine is Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)..

Etymology of Jinja from oracle bone characters

Shinto Shrine Media

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