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A place of worship or house of worship is a building or other location where a group of people (a congregation) comes to perform acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion. The term temple is often used as a general term for any house of worship. Different religions have different names for their places of worship:
- Church – Christians
- In Western Christianity, some "private" temples are called chapels, while major public ones are designated by a term reflecting its ecclesiastical status, such as cathedral (seat of a diocesan bishop), basilica, or minster, and/or proper to a cultural tradition, including kirk (Scottish–cognate with church) or dom.
- In Orthodox Christianity (both Eastern and Oriental) a temple is a church with base shaped like Greek cross. See Orthodox temple.
- 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 buily temples are called use "church".
- Mormons uses both "church" and "temple" to denote different types of buildings. Normal worship services are held in churches while Mormon temples are reserved for special ordinances.
- Quakers call their places of worship meetinghouses.
- Synagogue – Judaism
- Some synagogues, especially Reform synagogues, are called temples, but Orthodox Judaism considers this inappropriate as they do not consider synagogues a replacement for the Temple in Jerusalem. Some Orthodox Jewish congregations use the term 'shul' to describe their place of worship.
- Mandir – Hinduism
- Mosque – Islam
- Buddhist temple – Buddhism
- Temple – Taoism
- Jinja – Shinto
- Bahá'í House of Worship – Bahá'í Faith
- Gurdwara – Sikhism
- Fire temple – Zoroastrianism
- Roman temple – Roman mythology
- Wat – Buddhism (in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos)
- Temple in Jerusalem – Judaism
- Greek temple – Greek mythology
- Temple at Uppsala – Norse mythology
- Derasar – Jainism
See also
"Place of worship"