What Is a Shinto Shrine?. A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja, archaic: shinsha, meaning: “place of the god(s)”) is a structure whose main purpose is to house (“enshrine”) one or more kami. Its most important building is used for the safekeeping of sacred objects and not for worship. Although only one word (“shrine”) is used in English, in Japanese, Shinto shrines may carry any one of many different, non-equivalent names like gongen, -gū, jinja, jingū, mori, myōjin, -sha, taisha, ubusuna or yashiro. (For details, see the section Interpreting shrine names.) *Disclaimer: Please note that we provide are based on psychic abilities and traditional healing. It is not an exact science. As such results may vary. What is the purpose of a Shinto shrine?|What religion is a Shinto shrine?|What are the beliefs of Shinto?| Shinto shrines (神社, jinja) are places of worship and the dwellings of the kami, the Shinto “gods”. Sacred objects of worship that Shinto (“the way of the gods“) is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and is as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan’s major religion alongside Buddhism. The shrine will contain a main hall (honden), a worship hall (haiden) and an offering hall (heiden), which may be separate buildings or separate rooms in the same building. Shinto is polytheistic in that it believes in many gods and animistic since it sees things like animals and natural objects as deities. Also unlike many religions, there has been no push to convert others to Shinto. Kami (Japanese: 神, [kaꜜmi]) are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or “holy powers”, that are venerated in the religion of Shinto.
