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house of worship

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Noun1.house of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer
bethel - a house of worship (especially one for sailors)
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
chapel - a place of worship that has its own altar
church building, church - a place for public (especially Christian) worship; "the church was empty"
meetinghouse, conventicle - a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
masjid, musjid - (Islam) a Muslim place of worship
mosque - (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret
shrine - a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
synagogue, tabernacle, temple - (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
temple - place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity


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The acre of land on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Chatsworth where the old wooden church had stood since 1903 -- the first house of worship in the Northwest Valley -- had been sold to a developer.
Completed in 1929, and often described since then as the most magnificent Jewish house of worship in the world, the beautiful and historic Sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El will re-open this fall in renewed splendor, as the result of a two-year restoration designed by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP.
That is the tax category of more or less every house of worship in America.
 
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