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| x Bahá'í House of Worship |
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Bahá'í Faith |
A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by its Arabic name of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Arabic: مشرق اﻻذكار, "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God"), is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith. The teachings of...
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| x Gurdwara |
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Sikh Gurdwara Sahib Sacramento |
A Gurdwara (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ, gurduārā or ਗੁਰਦਵਾਰਾ, gurdwārā; sometimes transliterated from Punjabi as gurudwara), meaning "the doorway to the guru", is a place of worship for Sikhs, the followers of Sikhism and also a place where weary travellers...
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| Sikh Gurdwara Selma | ||||
| Sri Guru Nanak Sikh Temple Yuba City | ||||
| Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Pittsburg | ||||
| Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose | ||||
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| x Jinja |
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A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more Shinto kami, and is usually characterized by the presence of a shinden (神殿) (also called honden (本殿)) or sanctuary, where the kami are enshrined. The honden may...
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| x Hindu temple |
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Hinduism | Prambanan |
A Hindu temple or Mandir (Sanskrit: मन्दिर) is a place of worship for followers of Hinduism. It can be a separate structure or a part of a building. A picture of most temples is the presence of murtis (images) of the Hindu deity to whom the temple...
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| Candi Sukuh | ||||
| Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple | ||||
| Pashupatinath temple | ||||
| Sri Mariamman Temple | ||||
| x Mosque |
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Sunni Islam | Hagia Sophia |
A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid, Arabic: مسجد — Arabic pronunciation: [ˈmæsdʒɪd] (pl. masājid, Arabic: مساجد — [mæˈsæːdʒɪd]). The word "mosque" in English refers...
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| Hassan II Mosque | ||||
| Koutoubia Mosque | ||||
| Tin Mal Mosque | ||||
| University of Al Karaouine | ||||
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| x Pathi |
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Pathi (Tamil :பதி - "The place where God is") is the name asserted to the primary centres of congregational worship for the South Indian religious system of Ayyavazhi, having a relatively large structure like that of a temple. They are seven in...
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| x Synagogue |
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Judaism | Hurva Synagogue |
A synagogue (from Greek: συναγωγή, transliterated synagogē, "assembly"; בית כנסת beyt knesset, "house of assembly"; שול or בית תפילה beyt t'fila, "house of prayer", shul; אסנוגה, esnoga) is a Jewish house of prayer.
Synagogue is commonly spoken of...
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| Birobidzhan Synagogue | ||||
| Old Synagogue | ||||
| Paradesi Synagogue | ||||
| New Synagogue, Berlin | ||||
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| x Greek temple |
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Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ὁ ναός, ho naós "dwelling", semantically distinct from Latin templum "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in Greek paganism. The temples themselves did usually not directly...
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| x Wat |
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Buddhism | Wat Phumin |
A wat (derived from the Sanskrit word Vattaka) is a monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, or Laos. The word "wat" (Khmer: វត្ត, Thai: วัด, sometimes rendered "vat" when referring to Laos) means "school."
Strictly speaking a wat is a Buddhist...
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| Angkor Wat | ||||
| Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh | ||||
| Wat Phnom | ||||
| Pha That Luang | ||||
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| x Friends meeting house |
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Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House |
A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship may be held. Quakers do not believe that meeting for worship should take place in any special place. They believe that
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| Amesbury Friends Meeting House | ||||
| Benjaminville Friends Meeting House | ||||
| Briggflatts Meeting House | ||||
| Leicester Friends Meeting House | ||||
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| x Chapel |
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Thorncrown Chapel |
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be attached to an institution such as a large church, college, hospital, palace, prison or cemetery, or it may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes...
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| Brancacci Chapel | ||||
| Contarelli Chapel | ||||
| Duke Chapel | ||||
| Eton College Chapel, Eton | ||||
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| x Cathedral |
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Kuopio Cathedral |
A cathedral (French cathédrale from Lat. cathedra, "seat" from the Greek kathedra (καθέδρα), seat, bench, from kata "down" + hedra seat, base, chair) is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a religious building for worship,...
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| St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne | ||||
| St Paul's Cathedral | ||||
| St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney | ||||
| St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh | ||||
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| x Basilica |
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Hagia Sophia |
The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa, the tribunal of a king), was originally used to describe a Roman public building (as in Greece, mainly a tribunal), usually located in the forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic...
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| Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception | ||||
| St. Peter's Basilica | ||||
| Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls | ||||
| Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore | ||||
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| x Orthodox church |
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn |
An Orthodox church as a church building of Eastern Orthodoxy has a distinct, recognizable style among church architectures.
While sharing many traditions, East and West in Christianity began to diverge from each other from an early date. Whereas the...
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| x Kirk |
Kirk can mean "church" in general or the Church of Scotland in particular. Many place names and personal names are also derived from it.
As a common noun, kirk is the Scots and Scottish English word for 'church', attested as a noun from the 14th...
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| x Derasar |
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A derasar is a temple for followers of Jainism, . Dehrasar is a word used in Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan, in other parts of India, the term Jain Mandir is used for all the Jain temples. Jain idols of Tirthankaras are worshipped there. Usually...
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| x Fire temple |
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A fire temple in Zoroastrianism is the place of worship for Zoroastrians. Although Zoroastrians revere fire in any form, the temple fire is not literally for the reverence of fire: In the Zoroastrian religion, fire (see Atar), together with clean...
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| x Christian Church |
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church |
The word church is used to denote both an association of people with a common set of religious beliefs, and a place of worship. The word is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity.
The English language word "church" developed...
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| Westminster Abbey | ||||
| Careforce Church | ||||
| CityLife Church | ||||
| Paradise Community Church | ||||
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| x Temple |
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Mormonism | Salt Lake Temple |
In the Latter Day Saint movement, a temple is a building dedicated to be a house of God and is reserved for special forms of worship. A temple differs from a church meetinghouse, which is used for weekly worship services. Temples have been a...
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| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | London England Temple | |||
| St. George Utah Temple | ||||
| Preston England Temple | ||||
| Washington D.C. Temple | ||||
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| x Shrine |
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Shrine of St. Anthony |
A shrine (Latin: scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are...
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| Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine | ||||
| Kashima Miko Shrine | ||||
| Kumano Shrine | ||||
| Washikura Shrine | ||||
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| x Temple |
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Sinheungsa |
A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as...
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| Htilominlo Temple | ||||
| Muktinath | ||||
| Byodo-In Temple | ||||
| Putuo Zongcheng Temple | ||||
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| x Roman temple |
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Roman mythology | Temple of Apollo Sosianus |
In the ancient religion of Roman paganism, practitioners often performed their worship at a temple. Sacrifices would take place at an altar outside the temple, as this meant any mess was easier to clean up, and the ceremony could be attended by many...
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| Temple of Bellona | ||||
| Temple of Caesar | ||||
| Temple of Castor and Pollux | ||||
| Temple of Concord | ||||
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| x Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses |
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Jehovah's Witnesses | Zwolle - Kingdom Hall |
A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these...
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| Aibonito - Kingdom Hall | ||||
| Alamogordo - Kingdom Hall | ||||
| Albuquerque - Kingdom Hall | ||||
| Alcabideche, Cascais - Kingdom Hall | ||||
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| x Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses | Jehovah's Witnesses | Yuba City - Assembly Hall | ||
| Ajalvir, Madrid - Assembly Hall | ||||
| Arapongas - Assembly Hall | ||||
| Belleville - Assembly Hall | ||||
| Benidorm - Assembly Hall | ||||
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| x Bethel Home | Jehovah's Witnesses | Zimbabwe - Bethel Home | ||
| Albania - Bethel Home | ||||
| Angola - Bethel Home | ||||
| Australia - Bethel Home | ||||
| Barbados - Bethel Home | ||||
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| x Abbey |
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Christianity | Waverley Abbey |
An abbey (from Latin abbatia, derived from Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community. The term can also refer to an...
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| Dryburgh Abbey | ||||
| x Monastery |
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Valaam Monastery |
Monastery (plural: monasteries), denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e.g. an oratory) as well as the domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in...
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| x Megachurch |
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Crystal Cathedral |
A megachurch is a church having around 2,000 or more attendants for a typical weekly service. The Hartford Institute's database lists more than 1,300 such Protestant churches in the United States. According to these data, about 50 churches on the...
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| x Meeting house |
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Round Church |
A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes secular buildings which function like a town hall or city hall, and buildings used for religious meetings, particularly of some non-conformist Christian...
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| x Bodaiji |
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A bodaiji (菩提寺, lit. "bodhi temple"), in Japanese Buddhism is a temple which, generation after generation, takes care of a family's dead giving them burial and performing ceremonies in their soul's favor. The name is due to the fact that in Japan...
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| x Unitarian Universalist Association |
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first unitarian church |
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the...
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| x Religious Society of Friends |
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Ottawa Monthly Meeting |
Quakerism originated in mid-17th century England, originally as a
break-away branch of Puritanism. George Fox (1624-1691), an English
preacher, founded the Society of Friends, whose open structure reflects
his aversion to church hierarchy and...
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