Temple (disambiguation)

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A temple is a building used for religious (mainly cultic) practices or occasionally similarly organized activities, such as Masonic lodges. Specific types of temples include:

• Reform Judaism synagogue, often called a Temple
• Temple (Mormonism)
• Orthodox temple (church)

Temple may also refer to:

• Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
• Temple University, Pennsylvania
• Shirley Temple

[edit] Cities and towns

• Temple, Georgia, USA
• Temple, Maine, USA
• Temple, Michigan, USA
• Temple, Midlothian, UK
• Temple, New Hampshire, USA
• Temple, Pennsylvania, USA
• Temple, Texas, USA
• Temple City, California, USA
• Temple Hills, Maryland, USA

[edit] Other places

• The Temple in Jerusalem, the destroyed holy site (Temple Mount) of Biblical Israel, still sacred to Jews who pray at the remaining Wailing Wall
• The Temple, two of the four Inns of Court in London: Inner Temple and Middle Temple
• Temple tube station
• Temple (Paris), an ancient fortress in Paris, now demolished
• Mount Temple, a major mountain in Alberta
• Temple Meads, a railway station in Bristol in England

[edit] In fiction and popular culture

• The Temple (band) is a Portuguese metal band
• Temple – Christian rock band
• "The Temple", a song by the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar
• Temple of Doom
• Temple can also refer to a fruit which is a cross between an orange and a tangerine.
• Celestial Temple, "Bajoran wormhole" in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
• Dungeons in the Legend of Zelda series.