Is there a name for an asian room which is only used to showcase a portrait of a deceased person?
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Shrine.
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Army is correct. That is a feature of some ancestor worship cultures and - as one would expect - such a room or set-up (very often NOT a separate room) has a different name in different languages. Typically the set-up is referred to or translated into English as "a shrine". In many of these ancestor worship cultures, "offerings" are "left for" the departed "before the shrine". Note that in some of these cultures such "offerings" are left at the grave marker instead of in a home shrine, and in some cultures both customs are often followed (the in-home shrine being a more private way to honor the departed, the grave marker being a more public way to do the same).
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