Temple (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Religious buildings 2 People 3 Cities and towns 4 Other places 5 In fiction and popular culture 6 Other uses

[edit] Religious buildings

A temple is a building used for religious practices or occasionally similarly organized activities. It is the usual name used in the English language for buildings of worship for the Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Shinto religions.

In the Abrahamic religions, The Temple usually refers to the Temple in Jerusalem, the destroyed holy site of Biblical Israel, which was built on Mount Moriah, usually called the Temple Mount, which is still sacred to Jews, who pray in its direction.

Religious and social buildings named after the Temple in Jerusalem include:

• Mandir, Sanskrit for Hindu temple
• Synagogue (Reform Judaism), often called a temple
• Temple (Latter Day Saints)
• Orthodox church (building), often called a temple
• A temple in freemasonry

[edit] People

• Julien Temple, film director
• Juno Temple, actress
• Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP
• Shirley Temple, child actor and US ambassador
• William Temple (governor), governor of Delaware
• Temple Grandin, Colorado State University professor and slaughterhouse designer

[edit] Cities and towns

United Kingdom

• Temple, Midlothian

United States

• Temple, Georgia
• Temple, Indiana
• Temple, Maine
• Temple, Michigan
• Temple, New Hampshire
• Temple, Oklahoma
• Temple, Pennsylvania
• Temple, Texas
• Temple City, California
• Temple Hills, Maryland

[edit] Other places

United Kingdom

• The Temple, two of the four Inns of Court in London: Inner Temple and Middle Temple
• Temple tube station, London, near the Inner Temple (above)
• Temple Meads, a railway station in Bristol in England

United States

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places

• The Temple (Atlanta, Georgia)
• The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
• The Temple (Cleveland, Ohio)

Colleges, universities, etc.

• Temple University, Pennsylvania
• Temple College, Texas

France

• Temple (Paris), an ancient fortress in Paris, now demolished

Canada

• Mount Temple, a mountain in Alberta
• Temple, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta

[edit] In fiction and popular culture

• Temple (Christian rock band)
• The Temple, a Portuguese metal band
• "The Temple", a song by the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (album)
• Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
• The Temple (short story) (1920), by H.P. Lovecraft
• Celestial Temple (Bajoran wormhole), in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Temple Records, a record label
• Temple US Records, a record label

[edit] Other uses

• Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
• Temple, a variety of tangor, a cross between an orange and a tangerine
• Haykal, a term used in the writings of the Bahá'í Faith, meaning temple or human body.