Some Orthodox Christians use a standing censer on their icon corner (home altar).

These death masks were taken from bodies and kept in a home altar.

Several weeks later, the home altar now shows a picture of Pinkerton.

Rituals take place before home altars or at temples, which have no fixed congregations.

It is thought that home altars were created as a result of community isolation from a centralized place of worship.

These skulls may be placed on home altars or given as gifts to children, family, and friends.

Chinese families placed food and burned incense on home altars devoted to those who had passed on.

Handicrafts, particularly weaving and the manufacture of religious art for home altars, are a small cottage industry.

A personal home altar may evolve over a period of years, rather than being constructed suddenly in one day.

Images of Catarina appeared on home altars, and her house became a shrine and a pilgrimage site.