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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove' has mentioned 'Sacred' in the following places:
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| Osun-Osogbo Sacred GroveUNESCO World Heritage SiteLocationOsogbo, NigeriaCriteriaCultural:xc2xa0(ii), (iii), (vi)Reference1118Inscription2005 (29th session)Area75xc2xa0ha (190 acres)Bufferxc2xa0zone47xc2xa0ha (120 acres)Coordinates7xc2xb045xe2x80xb220xe2x80xb3N 4xc2xb033xe2x80xb208xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf7.75556xc2xb0N 4.55222xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 7.75556; 4.55222Coordinates: 7xc2xb045xe2x80xb220xe2x80xb3N 4xc2xb033xe2x80xb208xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf7.75556xc2xb0N 4.55222xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 7.75556; 4.55222Location of Osun-Osogbo in Nigeria | WIKI |
| Osun-Osogbo or Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a sacred grove along the banks of the Osun river just outside the city of Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. | WIKI |
| The Osun-Osogbo Grove is among the last of the sacred forests which usually adjoined the edges of most Yoruba cities before extensive urbanization. | WIKI |
| In recognition of its global significance and its cultural value, the Sacred Grove was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. | WIKI |
| With the encouragement of the Ataoja and the support of the local people, "Wenger formed the New Sacred Art movement to challenge land speculators, repel poachers, protect shrines and begin the long process of bringing the sacred place back to life by establishing it, again, as the sacred heart of Osogbo". | WIKI |
| Ina Olojumerindinlogun, the sacred lamp lit at the beginning of the annual Osun-Osogbo festival | WIKI |
| A century ago there were many sacred groves in Yorubaland: every town had one. | UNESCO |
| Osun-Osogbo, in the heart of Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, founded some 400 years ago in southwest Nigeria, at a distance of 250 km from Lagos is the largest sacred grove to have survived and one that is still revered. | UNESCO |
| The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove is some of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. | UNESCO |
| Set within the forest sanctuary are forty shrines, sculptures and art works erected in honour of Osun and other Yoruba deities, many created in the past forty years, two palaces, five sacred places and nine worship points strung along the river banks with designated priests and priestesses. | UNESCO |
| The restoration of the grove by artists has given the grove a new importance: it has become a sacred place for the whole of Yorubaland and a symbol of identity for the wider Yoruba Diaspora. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): The development of the Movement of New Sacred Artists and the absorption of Suzanne Wenger, an Austrian artist, into the Yoruba community have proved to be a fertile exchange of ideas that revived the sacred Osun Grove. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The Osun Sacred Grove is the largest and perhaps the only remaining example of a once widespread phenomenon that used to characterise every Yoruba settlement. | UNESCO |
| It now represents Yoruba sacred Groves and their reflection of Yoruba cosmology. | UNESCO |
| The property encompasses almost the whole of the sacred grove and certainly all that has been restored over the forty years before inscription. | UNESCO |
| The authenticity of the Grove is related to its value as a sacred place. | UNESCO |
| The sacred nature of places can only be continually reinforced if that sacredness is widely respected. | UNESCO |
| The new sculptures have achieved their purpose and the Grove now has wider than local significance as a sacred place for the Yoruba people. | UNESCO |
| Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is also part of National Tourism development Master Plan that was established with World Tourism Organization (WTO) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP). | UNESCO |