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Buddhists have monasteries where a master and monks live, and shrines which can be public (as in a monastery) or private (I have a shrine in my home). Lay people can go to a monastery to receive teachings and make offerings. In Shrines people can dedicated themselves to the teachings and do meditation in private or with others.
The closest thing Buddhists have to a church would probably be a monastery or nunnery, or Gompa, in Tibetan.

In the U.S. there is a sect called Buddhist Churches of America, a largely Japanese-American organization that practices Buddhism but has some Westernized touches such as a church building and pews.

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