Another word for temple
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- In India and the Far East, a temple in the form of a pyramidal tower of several stories
- A religious building of East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially a multistory Buddhist tower with widely overhanging eaves separating each level, erected as a memorial or shrine.
- A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.
- A building in which famous dead persons of a nation are entombed or commemorated, as the church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris
- (Place, proper) A temple built by Agrippa in Rome in 27 b.c., and rebuilt in the 2d cent. a.d. by Hadrian: used since a.d. 609 as a Christian Church
- All the gods of a people considered as a group:
- A building or place used by Jews for worship, religious study, and, often, community activity
- The Jewish religion as organized or typified in local congregations.
- A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
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