Altarsalter

Altars are/were traditional places for human or animal sacrifice and worship of deities.

They were used in the Old Testament period to offer Sacrifices to God, for the remission of sins, and by pagans as a sacrifice of appeasement to their gods. 

Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox and Anglo Catholicism use altars as a means of liturgical worship as do other ritualistic expressions of Christian belief and sacrifice. Pagans still use altars for occult practices, and the New Age and Contemplative movements use them as a focal point to personal transcendence and deification.

Our Lord Jesus Christ...Put an end to the sacrificial altar system under the law, through His once, and for all, sacrifice of substitutionary atonement on the cross at Calvary. The Reformation periods dismantled altars as an unnecessary aspect of genuine Christian worship.

Sacred Spaces...Are either a physical spot where one goes to engage in mystical practice or the actual silence or the state of altered consciousness attained during the mystical experience.