Temple (disambiguation)

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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:

Science, technology, and medicine

• Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
• Side-pieces on a set of glasses
• 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

People

• Temple (name), includes a list of people with the name

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

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
  • Temple tube station
• The Temple, Liverpool, an office building

United States

• The Temple (Atlanta)
• The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
• The Temple (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, nicknamed "The Temple"

Mountains

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

Schools

• Temple University, Pennsylvania
• Temple College, Texas

In music

• Temple Records (disambiguation), several record labels
• Temple (band), an American Christian rock band
• "Temple" (Kings of Leon song)
• "The Temple", a song from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
• Temple, a soloist project of guitarist Walter Giardino
• Temples (band), an English psychedelic rock band from Kettering

In literature

• Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
• The Temple (novel), by Stephen Spender, written in 1928 and published in 1988
• "The Temple" (Lovecraft short story), by H.P. Lovecraft (1920)
• "The Temple" (Oates short story), by Joyce Carol Oates (1996)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Temple"