Jinja

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Main building of the Inner Shrine at Ise (credit: Courtesy of Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo)

In the Shinto religion, a place where a god is enshrined or to which it is summoned. Originally rural sites of great natural beauty, jinja now include urban shrines. They vary in size from small roadside places of prayer to large building complexes such as the Grand Ise Shrine. There are more than 97,000 such shrines in Japan.

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Jinja (jĭn'jə), city (2002 pop. 71,213), SE Uganda, on the Victoria Nile River, near Lake Victoria. It is an industrial city and the commercial and processing center for a region where cotton, sugarcane, corn, and peanuts are grown. Manufactures include refined copper, metal goods, forest products, textiles, soap, and processed food. It is connected by rail with Mombasa on the Indian Ocean. Jinja was founded in 1901 as a trading post; with the development of the nearby Owen Falls hydroelectric project, which includes the Nalubaale (1954) and Kiira (1999) dams, it became (1950s) a major industrial center. The city's services and infrastructure declined during the regime of Idi Amin.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria

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Jinja may be:

Jinja, Uganda, a city in eastern Uganda close to the source of the Nile River
Jinja District, the district in Uganda named after the above city
Jinja (Shinto), a Shinto shrine
Jinja (template engine), a template engine

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