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x Bahá'í House of Worship Bahá'í Lotus Temple 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...
x Gurdwara Gurdwara   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...
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 Romon at Isonokami Jingu in Tenri, Nara    
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...
x Hindu temple Basavana Gudi or Bull Temple 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...
Candi Sukuh
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple
Pashupatinath temple
Sri Mariamman Temple
x Mosque Masjid al Haram 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...
Hassan II Mosque
Koutoubia Mosque
Tin Mal Mosque
University of Al Karaouine
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x Pathi /wikipedia/images/en_id/7111698    
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...
x Synagogue Praha Staronova Synagoga 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...
Birobidzhan Synagogue
Old Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
New Synagogue, Berlin
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x Greek temple Athens Parthenon    
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...
x Wat PICT4861 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...
Angkor Wat
Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Wat Phnom
Pha That Luang
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x Friends meeting house Sydney Friends meeting house   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 Therefore...
Amesbury Friends Meeting House
Benjaminville Friends Meeting House
Briggflatts Meeting House
Leicester Friends Meeting House
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x Chapel Neogothic chapel in Mošovce, Slovakia 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...
Brancacci Chapel
Contarelli Chapel
Duke Chapel
Eton College Chapel, Eton
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x Cathedral Duomo di Milano   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,...
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 St. Peter's Basilica is often used by the pope   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...
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 St Basils Cathedral-500px   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...
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...
x Derasar Jain temple in bombay 3    
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...
x Fire temple The remains of Adur Gushnasp, as seen from across the crater at the Takht-i-Suleiman    
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...
x Christian Church St. Hripsime Church in Echmiadzin   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...
Westminster Abbey
Careforce Church
CityLife Church
Paradise Community Church
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x Temple SLC Temple east side night 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...
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 Eastern Orthodox shrine   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...
Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine
Kashima Miko Shrine
Kumano Shrine
Washikura Shrine
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x Temple Athens Parthenon   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...
Htilominlo Temple
Muktinath
Byodo-In Temple
Putuo Zongcheng Temple
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x Roman temple TempleOfHercules-ForumBoarium 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...
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 Kingdomhall 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...
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 image:abbey_01.png 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...
Dryburgh Abbey
x Monastery Lake Seliger - View of Nilov Monastery on Stolbnyi Island, Lake Seliger, c. 1910, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii   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...
x Megachurch Crystal Cathedral   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...
x Meeting house Meeting house in Marlboro   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...
x Bodaiji TokugawaIemochi grave    
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...
x Unitarian Universalist Association The new version of the flaming chalice, symbol of the Unitarian Universalist Association   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...
x Religious Society of Friends Meetinghouse at Stonybrook (Princeton)   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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