Temple (disambiguation)

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
* Protestant churches sometimes use "Temple" in their names, e.g., Dorchester Temple Baptist Church, Angelus Temple, etc.
*Synagogue (Reform Judaism), often called a temple
*Temple (Latter Day Saints)
*Orthodox church (building), often called a temple
*A temple in freemasonry
* Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks buildings may be called an Elks Temple.
* Knights of Pythias buildings may be called temples.

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

Cities and towns

;United Kingdom
*Temple, Midlothian
*Temple, Hampshire;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

Other places

;Canada
*Mount Temple, 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
*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 StatesBuildings 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

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
*"The Temple", a novel by Stephen Spender, written in 1928 and published in 1988
*Celestial Temple (Bajoran wormhole), in the fictional "Star Trek" universe
* Temple Records, a record label
* Temple US Records, a record label

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.