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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 .
A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. [1] Rutherford's reasoning was that these buildings would be used for "preaching the good news of the Kingdom". [2]
The word 'mosque' entered the English language from the French word mosquée, probably derived from Italian moschea (a variant of Italian moscheta), from either Middle Armenian մզկիթ (mzkit), Medieval Greek: μασγίδιον (masgídion), or Spanish mezquita, from Arabic: مسجد, romanized: masjid (meaning "site of prostration (in prayer)" and hence a place of worship), either from ...
Druze holy places (3 P) H. Places associated with hesychasm (2 C, 8 P) Holy cities (38 C, 91 P) M. Significant places in Mormonism (7 C, 60 P) P. ... Place of worship ...
The earliest known Israelite place of worship is a 12th-century BCE open-air altar in the hills of Samaria featuring a bronze bull reminiscent of Canaanite Bull-El (El in the form of a bull) and the archaeological remains of further temples have been found at Dan on Israel's northern border, at Arad in the Negev and Beersheba, both in the ...
Local houses of worship for the Deaf transcend spoken language to inspire spiritual formation. Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune Updated December 1, 2024 at 10:12 PM
A fire temple (Persian: آتشکده, romanized: ātashkadeh; Gujarati: અગિયારી, romanized: agiyārī) [a] is a place of worship for Zoroastrians. [1] [2] [3] In Zoroastrian doctrine, atar and aban (fire and water) are agents of ritual purity.
A couple decided that if one of them got picked up, the other would signal trouble by texting random letters. At a restaurant, the cashier’s strategy was to stay inside except for work. “I don ...