Place of worship

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Gnostic
religion from antiquity

A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a

churches, mosques, and synagogues are examples of structures created for worship. A monastery may serve both to house those belonging to religious orders and as a place of worship for visitors. Natural or topographical features may also serve as places of worship, and are considered holy or sacrosanct in some religions; the rituals associated with the Ganges river are an example in Hinduism
.

Under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, religious buildings are offered special protection, similar to the protection guaranteed hospitals displaying the Red Cross or Red Crescent. These international laws of war bar firing upon or from a religious building.

Religious architecture
expresses the religious beliefs, aesthetic choices, and economic and technological capacity of those who create or adapt it, and thus places of worship show great variety depending on time and place.

Buddhism

Christianity

The word

Religious Society of Friends, Mennonites, Christadelphians, and some unitarians, object to the use of the word "church" to refer to a building, as they argue that this word should be reserved for the body of believers who worship there.[2]
Instead, these groups use words such as "Hall" to identify their places of worship or any building in use by them for the purpose of assembly.

Classical antiquity

Ancient Greece

  • religions in ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Hinduism

A Hindu temple is a symbolic house, seat and body of god. It is a structure designed to bring human beings and gods together, using symbolism to express the ideas and beliefs of

moksa, and karma.[7][8][9]

Islam

A

Arabic: مسجد, romanizedmasjid), literally meaning "place of prostration", is a place of worship for followers of Islam
. There are strict and detailed requirements in Sunni jurisprudence (fiqh) for a place of worship to be considered a masjid, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as musallas. There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the mosque (which is often a small portion of the larger complex), and, in the Islamic Sharia law, after an area is formally designated as a mosque, it remains so until the Last Day.

Many mosques have elaborate domes, minarets, and prayer halls, in varying styles of architecture. Mosques originated on the Arabian Peninsula, but are now found in all inhabited continents. The mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for salat (صلاة ṣalāt, meaning "prayer") as well as a center for information, education, social welfare, and dispute settlement. The imam leads the congregation in prayer.

Jainism

Derasar is a word used for a Jain temple in Gujarat and southern Rajasthan.

Jain shrine or temple in Karnataka[10]
There are some guidelines to follow when one is visiting a Jain temple:[11]

  • Before entering the temple, one should bathe and wear fresh washed clothes
  • One should not be chewing any edibles
  • One should try to keep as silent as possible inside the temple.
  • Mobile phones should not be used in the temple.

Judaism

  • SynagogueJudaism
    • Some synagogues, especially Reform synagogues, are called temples, but Orthodox and Conservative Judaism considers this inappropriate as it does not consider synagogues a replacement for the Temple in Jerusalem.

Some Jewish congregations use the

Hebrew Beyt ha-Knesset (Hebrew בית הכנסת) meaning house of assembly.[12]

Mandaeism

Norse paganism

  • Norse paganism

Shinto

Sikhism

Taoism

Zoroastrianism

  • Fire temple - All Zoroastrian temples fall into the Fire temple category.
    • Atash Behram
    • Agyari
      • Dadgah

Vietnamese ancestral worship

  • Cao Dai
    religion.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The New Testament Definition of the Church". Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  2. ISSN 0016-1268
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  3. ., Quote: "The [Hindu] temple is the seat and dwelling of God, according to the majority of the [Indian] names" (p. 135); "The temple as Vimana, proportionately measured throughout, is the house and body of God" (p. 133).
  4. .; Quote: "The Hindu temple is designed to bring about contact between man and the gods" (...) "The architecture of the Hindu temple symbolically represents this quest by setting out to dissolve the boundaries between man and the divine".
  5. .
  6. , pp. 346–357 and 423-424
  7. , State University of New York Press, pp. 268–277.
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  9. ^ "Basadi".
  10. ^ CultureShock! India: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, Gitanjali Kolanad, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, 2008 p. 45
  11. ^ Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, © 1968; Pocket Books edition, 1970, p. 379

Further reading

  • Media related to Places of worship at Wikimedia Commons
  • James P. Wind, Places of worship: exploring their history, Rowman Altamira, 1997
  • Vaughan Hart, Places of worship, Phaidon, 1999
  • Eric Kang, The Place of Worship, Essence Publishing, 2003