Tag:building=wayside_shrine
 building = wayside_shrine
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A wayside shrine that meets the criteria of a building. 
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The tag building=wayside_shrine is used to map a very small building which shows a religious depiction as a wayside shrine, if it has a roof and is large enough for at least one person to enter (these are the usual criteria for a building).
This tag can also be used to mark wayside shrines created in modern times – not just “historic” ones. There is also tag historic=wayside_shrine and some advocate that it should be added only to historic ones, but that tags is extremely widely used for all (see Counterintuitive keys and values).
building=wayside_shrine has a certain problem, as building=* designates building structure and not its current function. building=wayside_shrine may have form of a shrine but be no longer a shrine.
See also this Taginfo comparison and this OSM tag history as a curve chart for the usage counts of these two tags.
Notes:
- For larger (but still small) christian buildings, that can be entered by one or more people, consider using the tag building=chapel.
- For non-christian buildings of this kind use the tag building=shrine.
See also
- historic=wayside_shrine
- building=chapel
- building=shrine
- amenity=place_of_worship
- historic=wayside_cross
- man_made=cross modern cross (without a historical context or historical value)
- summit:cross=yes summit cross