Bayt

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Bayt (Arabic: بيت or Hebrew: בית, both meaning 'house'; there are similar words in various Semitic languages), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may refer to:

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Jewish religious terms

• Temple Mount, Hebrew Har ha-Bayit, "Mount of the House"
• Beth Israel, "House of Israel"

Islamic terms

• Ahl al-Bayt, the People of the House, referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims

Synagogues

• Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Place-names and derivates

In alphabetical order including the articles.

Bayit

• Bayit VeGan

Bayt

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A few outstanding ones:

• Bayt al-Allah
  (the Kaaba)
• Bayt al-Muqaddas
  (Jerusalem)

Beit

• Beit Jala
• Beit Sahour
• Beit Shemesh
• Beit Hanina
• Beitin
• Betar (fortress)
  • Battir

Beth

• Beth Alpha
• Beth-Horon
• Beth Shean
• Bethany
• Bethel/Beth-El
• Bethesda
• Bethlehem
• Bethsaida

Institutions and organizations

First see above under "All pages with titles beginning with Bayt" and "All pages with titles containing Bayt". Here only those not spelled with "bayt".

• Bayit Lepletot, Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls
• Bayit Leumi
  Israeli political organization
• Bayit Yehudi
  – 'The Jewish Home' political party
• Bayt al-hikmah (House of Wisdom); Umayyad library in Damascus, and Abbasid library in Baghdad
• Betar/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress

See also

• Beit or bait, lit. 'house', metrical unit of poetry from Arabia through Turkey and Iran to India
• Bet (disambiguation)
  • Bet (letter), derived from the hyeroglyph for house
• Beth (disambiguation)