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Shrines with other sokushinbutsu can be found around Japan, with more than half the known sokushinbutsu around the sacred mountains of Yamagata prefecture.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

Shrines hosted statues of El Divino Salvador del Mundo and El Cristo Negro de Esquipulas — images of Jesus revered respectively in El Salvador and Guatemala and their diasporas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Shrines honoring the dead at the Zocalo are part of a tradition that blends Catholic rituals with the pre-Hispanic belief that the dead return once a year from the underworld.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2021

Shrines and statues of the folk saint can be found in New Mexico, California, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere.

From Fox News • Mar. 24, 2019

‘Alíyat, literally Supreme Shrines, a term by which the Shí’ih Muslims referred to the cities of Kazímayn, Najaf, and Karbilá and generally applied to the region of eastern ‘Iráq, of which Baghdád was the center.

From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá