| To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable. |
| Then of course, there was the task of cleaning up all of the candle wax and wine-soaked altar cloth. |
| Once we were word perfect we were taught what we had to do whilst on the altar. |
| My mother keeps me well in stock of incense, candles, charcoal blocks, and altar covers. |
| While most of the people praying at the Sam Poo Thay Jien altar are ethnic Chinese, most of the people at the Anchor Temple are Javanese. |
| The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar. |
