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Concept
Place of worship
Summary
A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study. A building constructed or used for this purpose is sometimes called a house of worship. Temples, 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.
Buddhist temple
List of Buddhist temples
Candi, Buddhist sanctuaries mostly built during the 1st to 21st centuries in the Indonesian Archipelago
Chaitya, a Buddhist shrine that includes a stupa
Jingū-ji, a religious complex in pre-Meiji Japan comprising a Buddhist temple and a local kami Shinto shrine
Pagoda, a towerlike, multistory structure usually associated with Buddhist temple complexes of East and Southeast Asia.
Vihara, a Buddhist monastery found abundantly in Bihar
Wat, the name for a monastery temple in Cambodia and Thailand
Church (building)
List of churches
The word church derives from the Greek ekklesia, meaning the called-out ones. Its original meaning is to refer to the body of believers, or the body of Christ. The word church is used to refer to a Christian place of worship by some Christian denominations, including Anglicans and Catholics.
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