Communities and nations need sacred places. Years later, when it was destroyed, he people of Israel mourned more over the destruction of this temple Solomon built than over the death of their sons and daughters. When the Babylonians, and later the Romans sacked the temple it nearly broke the spirit of the people. Destroy their sacred places and you destroy the heart and soul of a nation. This very room has been a sacred place in Edinburgh for over a hundred years.
Sacred places are important to a community.
In medieval times the church was a sacred place of prayer. Three times each day prayers were offered in the village church. Just short services, fifteen minutes at most. A few might linger for private prayer, maybe light a candle for someone. But at least three times each day prayers were offered in the village church, and everyone knew it.