Sites enshrining Benzaiten were built throughout Japan as the worship of Benzaiten spread, but many of these strongly Shinto Benten-sha halls became Shinto shrines as a result of the separation of Buddhism and Shinto during the Meiji period.
弁天信仰の広がりとともに各地に弁才天を祀る社が建てられたが、神道色の強かった弁天社は、明治の神仏分離の際に多くは神社となった。