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Congregation vs. Temple — What's the Difference?

Congregation vs. Temple — What's the Difference?

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Congregation

The act of assembling.

Temple

A temple (from the Latin templum) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Islam (whose temples are called mosques), Judaism (whose temples are called synagogues), and ancient religions such as the Ancient Egyptian religion.

Congregation

A body of assembled people or things; a gathering.

Temple

A building devoted to the worship of a god or gods.

Congregation

A group of people gathered for religious worship.
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Temple

A group of buildings in Fleet Street, London, which stand on land formerly occupied by the headquarters of the Knights Templar. Located there are the Inner and Outer Temple, two of the Inns of Court.

Congregation

The members of a specific religious group who regularly worship at a church or synagogue.

Temple

The flat part of either side of the head between the forehead and the ear
A man with curly hair greying at the temples

Congregation

A religious institute in which only simple vows, not solemn vows, are taken.

Temple

A device in a loom for keeping the cloth stretched.

Congregation

A division of the Curia.

Temple

A building dedicated to religious ceremonies or worship.

Congregation

The act of congregating or collecting together.

Temple

Temple Either of two successive buildings in ancient Jerusalem serving as the primary center for Jewish worship.

Congregation

A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).

Temple

(Judaism) A synagogue, especially of a Reform congregation.

Congregation

A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.

Temple

Mormon Church A building in which the sacred ordinances are administered.

Congregation

A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.

Temple

Something regarded as having within it a divine presence.

Congregation

Any large gathering of people.

Temple

A building used for meetings by any of several fraternal orders, such as the Freemasons.

Congregation

A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.

Temple

A building reserved for a highly valued function
The library, a temple of learning.

Congregation

The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.

Temple

Temple Either of two groups of buildings in London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, that house two of the four Inns of Court and that occupy the site of a complex used by the medieval Knights Templars.

Congregation

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts.

Temple

The flat region on either side of the forehead.

Congregation

A collection or mass of separate things.
A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

Temple

Either of the sidepieces of a frame for eyeglasses that extends along the temple and over the ear.

Congregation

An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations.

Temple

A device in a loom that keeps the cloth stretched to the correct width during weaving.

Congregation

The whole body of the Jewish people; - called also Congregation of the Lord.
It is a sin offering for the congregation.

Temple

A house of worship, especially:

Congregation

A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Temple

A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
The temple of Zeus was very large.

Congregation

The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.

Temple

(Judaism) synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
How often do you go to temple?

Congregation

The name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

Temple

(Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.

Congregation

A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

Temple

(in Japan) A Buddhist monastery, as opposed to a Shinto shrine.

Congregation

An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together;
A congregation of children pleaded for his autograph
A great congregation of birds flew over

Temple

A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.

Congregation

The act of congregating

Temple

(figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.

Temple

(figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
A temple of commerce;
A temple of drinking and dining

Temple

(figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
My body is my temple.

Temple

(figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.

Temple

(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.

Temple

(ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Temple

(weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Temple

(transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

Temple

A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Temple

The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.

Temple

One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.

Temple

A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.

Temple

The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

Temple

Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?

Temple

Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
The groves were God's first temples.

Temple

A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.

Temple

A local organization of Odd Fellows.

Temple

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.

Temple

Place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

Temple

The flat area on either side of the forehead;
The veins in his temple throbbed

Temple

An edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes

Temple

(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

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