temple
structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities
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Summary
temple ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,397 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: shrine[2]
- Commons category: Temples[3]
- Topic's main category: Category:Temples[4], Category:Temple[5]
- Commons gallery: Temple[6]
- OpenStreetMap tag: building=temple[7]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (1908-1930)[17], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18]
- Different from: Church[19]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
Why It Matters
temple has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] temple is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]