Temple (disambiguation)

A temple is a building used for religious practices or occasionally similarly organized activities.

In the Abrahamic religions, The Temple usually refers to the Temple in Jerusalem, the destroyed holy site of Biblical Israel.

Temple may also refer to:

Contents 1 Science, technology, and medicine 2 Schools/Universities 3 People 4 Cities and towns 5 Other places 6 Organizations 7 Television, film, music, and books 8 Other uses 9 See also 10 Notes

Science, technology, and medicine

• Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
• Side-pieces on a set of spectacles
• Temple, a variety of tangor, a cross between an orange and a tangerine
• Temple (Weaving), a part of a weaving machine for spreading the cloth

Schools/Universities

• Temple University, a major public university in Philadelphia, USA
• Temple Owls, the athletic program of the above school

People

Surname

• Derek Temple, English football player
• Dina Temple-Raston, Belgian-American journalist
• Frederick Temple (1821–1902), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Henry John Temple (1784–1865), British Prime Minister
• Henry Wilson Temple (1864–1955), American Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
• Julien Temple (born 1953), English film director
• Juno Temple (born 1989), English actress, daughter of Julien
• Keith Temple, British screenwriter
• Lew Temple, American film actor
• Luke Temple, American singer-songwriter
• Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP
• Nina Temple, British political figure
• Owen Temple, American musician
• Peter Temple, Australian writer
• Peter Temple (regicide), English official
• Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, Welsh politician
• Philip Temple, New Zealand writer
• Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, anthropological writer.
• Robert K. G. Temple, American author
• Shirley Temple (born 1928), child actor and US ambassador
• Tony Temple, American football player
• Tracey Temple, former secretary to British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott
• William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), governor of Delaware

Given name

• Temple Grandin (born 1947), professor and slaughterhouse designer
• Temple Hayes, a Unity minister in Florida
• Temple F. Smith, American professor in Biomedical engineering

Cities and towns

United Kingdom

• Temple, Midlothian
• Temple, Cornwall

United States

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

Other places

Canada

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

France

• Temple (Paris), an ancient fortress in Paris, now demolished
• Temple (Paris Métro), a station of the Paris métro

United Kingdom

• Temple, London, which includes:
  • Inner Temple
  • Middle Temple
  • Temple tube station
• The Temple, Liverpool, an office building
• Temple Meads, a railway station in Bristol in England
• Temple Newsam, a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire

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

Mountains:

• Temple Mountain, near Temple, New Hampshire
• Temple Mount, Jerusalem

Other

• Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, nicknamed "The Temple"

Organizations

• Temple Records (disambiguation), several record labels
• Temple US Records, a record label

Television, film, music, and books

• Temple (Christian rock 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
• Temple, a soloist project of guitarist Walter Giardino
• The Temple (1920 short story), by H.P. Lovecraft
• The Temple (1996 short story), by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Temple, a novel by Stephen Spender, written in 1928 and published in 1988
• Celestial Temple (Bajoran wormhole), in the fictional Star Trek universe

Other uses

• Haykal, a term used in the writings of the Bahá'í faith, meaning temple or human body

See also

• All pages beginning with "Temple"

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