joss house - a Chinese temple or shrine for idol worship

pagoda - an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof

pantheon - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods

Parthenon - the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of Doric architecture

house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer

Mormon Tabernacle, Tabernacle - the Mormon temple

Temple of Artemis - a large temple at Ephesus that was said to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

head, caput - the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window"

feature, lineament - the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular"

building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

pillar, column - (architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure

entablature - (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof

ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat - a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians

house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer

Temple of Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon - any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall

Judaism - the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud