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house of God
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house of God
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(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church, temple, or chapel
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Noun1.house of God - any building where congregations gather for prayer
house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship
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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Some lines snaked along the sidewalks surrounding these houses of God.
Spiritual shifts. (Odds & Ends) by Gilmour, Peter / U.S. Catholic
In St Mark's, all the buildings from the eleventh to the nineteenth century have a degree of common scale, even the Doge's palace and the great cathedral relate to Sansovino's library and the buildings surrounding the piazza, however much bigger and more important the houses of God and the Prince may have been.
Letters by The Architectural Review
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