Meaning of 神社 in Japanese

"I've heard about it, Koichi" "You don't need to say anything more, I know. It's the summer festival incident at the shrine, right?"

"By the way, do you know what a Shinto shrine is?" "I've a little bit of knowledge on the subject. It's a religious facility where that which is the object of worship, that called the genius loci, is enshrined."

There are many shrines in Kyoto.

The thin man took a rest in the shade of a shrine.

The shrine was built two hundred years ago.

The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.

The old shrine used to stand there.

This path will lead you to the shrine.

It rained so hard that the shrine was washed away.

That ancient ruin was once a shrine.