English word senses marked with topical category "Places of worship"
Parent categories: Places, Buildings, Religion, Names, Buildings and structures, Culture, Architecture, Society, Applied sciences, Art, Sciences
Total 83 word senses
- God's house (Noun) Another place of worship.
- Kingdom Hall (Noun) A place where Jehovah's Witnesses meet for fellowship and worship.
- McChurch (Noun) A megachurch.
- Mithraeum (Noun) A grotto where the god Mithra was worshipped.
- abbey (Noun) A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- abbey (Noun) The church of a monastery.
- abbey (Noun) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
- adoratory (Noun) A room in a temple for the adoration of idols.
- altar (Noun) A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
- altar (Noun) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
- altar (Noun) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
- baptistry (Noun) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
- basilica (Noun) A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
- butsudan (Noun) A Buddhist shrine, comprising a wooden cabinet with doors that enclose and protect a religious icon.
- cathedral (Adjective) Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop.
- cathedral (Noun) The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
- cathedral (Noun) A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
- cathedral (Proper name) A mainstream system or establishment in society, held to be liberal or leftist and to be working against the interests of the people or nation.
- chantry (Noun) A chapel set up for this purpose
- chapel (Noun) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- chedi (Noun) A Thai Buddhist monument similar to a stupa.
- church (Noun) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- circle (Noun) A traffic circle or roundabout.
- circle (Noun) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times cont…
- circle (Verb) To travel in circles.
- cloister (Noun) A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- collegiate church (Noun) A Christian church, other than a cathedral, that has a chapter of canons and a dean or provost.
- convent (Noun) A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- convent (Noun) The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
- convent (Noun) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- convent (Noun) A Christian school.
- convent (Noun) A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- convent (Noun) A coming together; a meeting.
- covenstead (Noun) A Wiccan congregation.
- devale (Noun) A Hindu temple in Sri Lanka.
- eidgah (Noun) An open-air enclosure used for Eid prayers on certain special occasions.
- fane (Noun) A weathercock, a weather vane.
- feretory (Noun) An area of a church where relics are kept.
- friary (Adjective) Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
- great house (Noun) A large complex with many rooms, built for worship by the Anasazi.
- grove (Noun) A place of worship.
- gurdwara (Noun) A Sikh place of worship.
- hounfour (Noun) A voodoo temple.
- house of worship (Noun) A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
- kirk (Noun) A church.
- kovil (Noun) A Hindu temple built in a distinct style of Dravidian architecture.
- mandir (Noun) A Hindu temple.
- marabout (Noun) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
- marae (Noun) a Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure
- marae (Noun) The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house and the buildings around it.
- martyry (Noun) A shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian) martyr, possibly at his grave.
- martyry (Noun) A shrine at a site which "bears witness" to a crucial religious event not related to a tomb.
- masjid (Noun) A mosque.
- minster (Noun) A cathedral church without any monastic connection.
- monastery (Noun) A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
- mosque (Noun) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
- oracle (Noun) A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
- oratory (Noun) A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
- pagoda (Noun) A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
- pantheon (Noun) All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.
- parish church (Noun) A church that serves as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.
- priory (Noun) A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
- sacellum (Noun) In Ancient Rome, a shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine.
- sanctuary (Noun) A state of being protected, asylum.
- sanctuary (Noun) The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
- sekos (Noun) A sacred enclosure, sanctuary or cella in an ancient Greek temple.
- shrine (Noun) A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
- shul (Noun) An Ashkenazi synagogue.
- speos (Noun) A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock
- spirit house (Noun) A small house- or temple-like structure mounted on a pillar at which offerings are made to a local deity or protective spirit.
- stave church (Noun) A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.
- stupa (Noun) A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
- synagog (Noun) Alternative spelling of synagogue
- synagogue (Noun) A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
- tabernacle (Noun) Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
- tabernacle (Noun) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
- tabernacle (Noun) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
- takyeh (Noun) In Iran, a building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn Husayn's death in the month of Muharram; a husayniyya.
- tekke (Noun) In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship.
- temple (Noun) A house of worship, especially:; Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- tin tabernacle (Noun) A church, usually nonconformist, clad in corrugated iron.
- vihara (Noun) A Buddhist monastery.
- wat (Noun) A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
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