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prayer beads

string of beads used in various religious traditions
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prayer beads

Summary

prayer beads ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,120 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • prayer beads is a type of religious object[2].
  • prayer beads is used for prayer[3].
  • prayer beads's Commons category is recorded as Prayer beads[4].
  • prayer beads's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prayer beads[5].
  • prayer beads's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[6].
  • prayer beads's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • prayer beads's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • prayer beads's has part is recorded as prayer bead[9].

Body

Definition and Type

prayer beads is a type of religious object[2].

Use and Application

prayer beads is used for prayer[3].

Influence

Things named for prayer beads include paternoster lake[10].

Why It Matters

prayer beads ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,120 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Entities named for it include paternoster lake[10].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → religious object
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8462, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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