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Sacred Spaces

As part of our Sacred Nation reporting project, The World's "Sacred Spaces" series features sacred or spiritual places across the globe.

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Sylvia Maria Gross is an editor at The World.SMGSylvia Maria Gross
Sacred Spaces
Tibetans in Massachusetts celebrate 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday
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Sacred Nation
Immersive shrine installation comes with chanting and controversy
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Sacred Spaces
Colombia churches push for dialogue in the wake of renewed political violence
5:36
Sacred Nation
This family in Syria has kept the centuries-old tradition of Sufi whirling dervishes alive
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Sacred Spaces
The ‘1975’ project helps Vietnamese refugee families open up about their past
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Sacred Spaces
A family remembers a relative who died in the Holocaust with a ‘stumbling stone’ in her German hometown
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Sacred Nation
After Assad’s fall, a revered Shia shrine in Syria faces a new era of uncertainty
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Sacred Nation
Christians in historic town in Syria reflect on new moment in the country
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Sacred Spaces
For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the US’ greatest cantors
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Sacred Nation
Ukrainian military chaplains tend to soldiers and others at risk amid the ongoing fighting
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Sacred Spaces
How a deeply Buddhist Bhutan keeps religion and politics from mixing
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Sacred Spaces
A Baha’i temple in Uganda’s bustling capital offers a rare respite
4:34
Sacred Nation
Crimean Tatars mark Ramadan while in exile from the Crimean Peninsula
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Sacred Nation
In wartime Ukraine, Jews embrace their Ukrainian-Jewish identity
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Sacred Spaces
What South America’s largest Buddhist temple says about the religion’s growing influence in Brazil 
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Sacred Spaces
Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them
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Sacred Spaces
This aging Buenos Aires stadium continues to be the undisputed ‘temple of soccer’
4:22
Sacred Spaces
Kolkata’s Jewish population is dwindling
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Sacred Spaces
On this remote isle, an icon of the Virgin Mary has endured the flames of war
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Sacred Spaces
Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture
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Sacred Spaces
Holy Catholic relics from shuttered institutions are preserved on a New York campus
4:41
Sacred Nation
Armenian Christians of Jerusalem say their centuries-old community faces an existential threat    
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Sacred Spaces
‘Love you, then, well’: London’s National COVID Memorial Wall pays tribute to the country’s 240K lives lost to COVID-19
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Sacred Spaces
This 100-year-old synagogue tells a unique story about Jews in Finland 
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