Religious buildings
A temple is a building used for religious practices or occasionally similarly organized activities. It is the usual name used in the English language for buildings of worship for the Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Shinto, and Sikh religions.
In the Abrahamic religions, The Temple usually refers to the Temple in Jerusalem, the destroyed holy site of Biblical Israel, which was built on Mount Moriah, usually called the Temple Mount, which is still sacred to Jews, who pray in its direction.
Religious and social buildings named after the Temple in Jerusalem include:
- Synagogue (Reform Judaism), often called a temple
- Temple (Latter Day Saints)
- Orthodox church (building), often called a temple
- A temple in freemasonry
People
- Julien Temple, film director
- Juno Temple, actress
- Shirley Temple, child actor and US ambassador
Cities and towns
- United Kingdom
- Temple, Berkshire
- Temple, Midlothian
- United States
- Temple, Georgia
- Temple, Maine
- Temple, Michigan
- Temple, New Hampshire
- Temple, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated place in Muhlenberg Township, Pennsylvania
- Temple, Texas
- Temple City, California
- Temple Hills, Maryland
Other places
- United Kingdom
- The Temple, two of the four Inns of Court in London: Inner Temple and Middle Temple
- Temple tube station, London, near the Inner Temple (above)
- Temple Meads, a railway station in Bristol in England
- United States
- Temple University, Pennsylvania
- Temple College, Texas
- France
- Temple (Paris), an ancient fortress in Paris, now demolished
- Canada
- Mount Temple, a mountain in Alberta
- Temple, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
In fiction and popular culture
- Temple (Christian rock band)
- The Temple, a Portuguese metal band
- "The Temple", a song by the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (album)
- Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
- The Temple (short story) (1920), by H.P. Lovecraft
- Celestial Temple (Bajoran wormhole), in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Temple Records, a record label
- Temple US Records, a record label
Other uses
- Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
- Temple, a variety of tangor, a cross between an orange and a tangerine
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