In old times, as a place to enshrine the sorei of Imperial Family, the Ise-jingu Shrine had a rule called Shihei kindan (nobody but the Emperor could go and pray there), which was an example of such exclusiveness.
伊勢神宮の古代の私幣禁断には天皇家の祖霊を祀る場所としての排他の論理がある。