haram

Examples

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• Plan on getting to the Haram extra early if you want to pray inside.

  Blog text (12)

• Shafts of morning sun filtered through the Haram's narrow light wells, leaded windows, and arabesque screens.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Each Bedouin home is regarded as a haram (sanctuary).

  Academic text (1990)

• At its center sits the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, the epicenter of religious life in the city now as it was in antiquity.

  Academic text (2010)

• Visitors must respect the rules while in the haram, as certain actions are prohibited.

• He felt a deep sense of peace as he stood in the haram during the evening prayer.

• Many believers travel great distances to worship in the haram, which is considered a sacred space.

Synonyms

S

shrine

vsharam

126 4.1

A holy place where people go to pray and honor a saint or sacred object

is a protected site where actions are forbidden by religious rules

S

sanctuary

vsharam

55 5.5

A holy part of a religious building around the altar

is a protected religious site where specific actions are forbidden

H

holy place

vsharam

14 3.5

A place where people go to pray, like a temple or church

is a protected site where some actions are expressly forbidden

H

holy of holies

vsharam

• Literature

9.9

A place or thing that people treat as too sacred to change

is ritually protected with explicit rules forbidding certain actions

How Sacred

haram

2 9.2

shrine

126 4.1

holy place

14 3.5

place of worship

14 2.9

public square

5 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology