temple

Summary

temple ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,211 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• temple is a type of shrine^[2].
• temple's Commons category is recorded as Temples^[3].
• temple's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Temples^[4].
• temple's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Temple^[5].
• temple's Commons gallery is recorded as Temple^[6].
• temple's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as building=temple^[7].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[8].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[9].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[11].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[13].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[14].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[15].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[16].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (1908-1930)^[17].
• temple's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[18].
• temple's different from is recorded as Church^[19].
• temple's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[20].

Body

Definition and Type

temple is a type of shrine^[2].

Why It Matters

temple ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,211 views/month).^[1] temple has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[21] temple is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[22]