shrine
definition
a place built to remember a particular person or event, often religious
example
In ancient Greece, there used to be a sacred shrine where a god or goddess was said to reveal the future through a priest.
synonyms
holy placetempleplace of worship
word origin — Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’