Place of worship
A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a
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.
Buddhism
- Indonesian Archipelago
- Chaitya, a Buddhist shrine that includes a stupa
- shrine
- Pagoda, a towerlike, multistory structure usually associated with Buddhist temple complexes of East and Southeast Asia.
- Wat, the name for a monastery temple in Cambodia and Thailand
Christianity
The word
- Roman Catholic)
- Anglicanchurches)
- Anglicanism, some smaller and "private" places of worship are called chapels.
- Protestantdenominations
- Kirk (Scottish–cognate with church)
- Religious Society of Friends
- Meeting House – Christadelphians
- special ordinances.
- Temple – French Protestants
Protestant denominations installed in France in the early modern era use the word temple (as opposed to church, supposed to be Roman Catholic); some more recently built temples are called church. - Greek cross.
- Kingdom Hall – Jehovah's Witnesses may apply the term in a general way to any meeting place used for their formal meetings for worship, but apply the term formally to those places established by and for local congregations of up to 200 adherents. Their multi-congregation events are typically held at a meeting place termed Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (or Christian Convention Center of Jehovah's Witnesses).
Classical antiquity
Ancient Greece
- religions in ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
- Roman temple, for the religions of ancient Rome
- Mithraic mysteries
Hinduism
- Hindu temple (Mandir), Hinduism[3]
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
Islam
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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.
- 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
- Synagogue – Judaism
- 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
Mandaeism
- Beth Manda – Mandaeism
- A mandi or Beth Manda (Beit Manda or Bit Manda, 'house of knowledge') is a cultic hut and place of worship for followers of Mandaeism.
Norse paganism
- Norse paganism
Shinto
- Jinja – Shinto
Sikhism
Taoism
- Daoguan – Taoism
Zoroastrianism
- Fire temple - All Zoroastrian temples fall into the Fire temple category.
- Atash Behram
- Agyari
- Dadgah
Vietnamese ancestral worship
- Cao Daireligion.
See also
- Altar
- Arming places of worship
- Bahá'í House of Worship
- Ibadat Khana
- Sacred space
- Shrine
- Religious architecture
- Reliquary
- List of largest church buildings in the world
- List of largest mosques in the world
- Temple
References
- ^ "The New Testament Definition of the Church". Retrieved 23 June 2009.
- ISSN 0016-1268.
- ISBN 0-8160-4987-4. ^ http://www.mandir.org/awards&opinions/Buildings%20and%20structures.htm Archived 10 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-81-208-0223-0., 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).
- ISBN 978-0-226-53230-1.; 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".
- ISBN 978-81-208-0223-0.
- ISBN 978-81-208-0222-3, pp. 346–357 and 423-424
- ISBN 978-0-7914-7082-4, State University of New York Press, pp. 268–277.
- ISBN 978-0-226-53230-1.
- ^ "Basadi".
- ^ CultureShock! India: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, Gitanjali Kolanad, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, 2008 p. 45
- ^ 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