I've seen lots of old ruins, all that's left of ancient houses and temples and altars.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
"We have no altars in our church nowadays.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
16. The popular opinion that Christians face the east in prayer, or have altars eastward because Jerusalem is eastward, does not fit in with facts.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz