To provide a vertically movable household altar allowing an elderly person, a person with disability, or the like to maintain the household altar safely and easily.

The vertically movable household altar is characterized in that one rail of a slide rail unit projecting in an overhang state is set oppositely on the inside of both longitudinal frame sides of a longitudinally elongated rectangle and the other rail of the slide rail unit is set on the outside of both longitudinal sides, and an engaging element of a vertically drive mechanism, wherein a shelf board can be fixed on the front face and is set in the longitudinal direction within a depth range of the longitudinally elongated rectangle frame, is engaged with vertically movable frame set so as to be cramped between both longitudinal sides of the longitudinally elongated rectangle via the slide rail unit to make the shelf board movable by a vertically drive mechanism, and the Shinto altar is fixed on the shelf board, and when the vertical movement element is moved to the highest, the vertical movable frame is housed in the length range of the longitudinally elongated frame, and when moved to the lowest, the slide rail unit projects downward in an overhang state to largely project from the vertically movable frame from the longitudinally elongated rectangle frame to take a descended position.