Temple. Temple (69 wallpapers)

A temple is a religious building intended for worship and religious rites. The significance of temples is often much broader than the ritual functions they perform and the religious ideas they embody. In the symbolism of architecture and decorative decoration of temples, ideas about the universe are revealed; in many epochs, temples were a place of public meetings, solemn ceremonies, had a memorial character, and had the right of asylum.

In Orthodoxy, only that building in which there is an altar and the Eucharist is celebrated is a temple, and the building where there is no altar and the Eucharist is not celebrated is called a chapel.

There are currently no temples in other Abrahamic religions. In Judaism there can be only one Jerusalem Temple, now destroyed, in Islam they are completely absent. The main religious buildings in these religions - the Jewish synagogue and the Muslim mosque - are not temples, but serve for prayer purposes. According to their cult functions, they are similar to the Christian chapel.































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