Temple (disambiguation)

A temple is a building used for religious practices or occasionally similarly organized activities.

In the Abrahamic religions, The Temple usually refers to the Temple in Jerusalem, the destroyed holy site of Biblical Israel.

Temple may also refer to:

Science, technology, and medicine

• Temple (anatomy), a part of the head
• Side-pieces on a set of spectacles
• Temple, a variety of tangor, a cross between an orange and a tangerine
• Temple (Weaving), a part of a weaving machine for spreading the cloth

Schools/Universities

• Temple University, a major public university in Philadelphia, USA
• Temple Owls, the athletic program of the above school

People

• Temple (name), includes list of people with the name

Cities and towns

United Kingdom

• Temple, Midlothian
• Temple, Cornwall

United States

• Temple, Georgia
• Temple, Indiana
• Temple, Maine
• Temple, Michigan
• Temple, New Hampshire
• Temple, North Dakota
• Temple, Oklahoma
• Temple, Pennsylvania
• Temple, Texas
• Temple City, California
• Temple Hills, Maryland

Other places

Canada

• Mount Temple (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta
• Temple, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta

France

• Temple (Paris), an ancient fortress in Paris, now demolished
• Temple (Paris Métro), a station of the Paris métro

United Kingdom

• Temple, London, which includes:
  • Inner Temple
  • Middle Temple
  • Temple tube station
• The Temple, Liverpool, an office building
• Temple Meads, a railway station in Bristol in England
• Temple Newsam, a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire

United States

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places:

• The Temple (Atlanta, Georgia)
• The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
• The Temple (Cleveland, Ohio)

Colleges, universities, etc.:

• Temple University, Pennsylvania
• Temple College, Texas

Mountains:

• Temple Mountain, near Temple, New Hampshire
• Temple Mount, Jerusalem

Other

• Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, nicknamed "The Temple"

Organizations

• Temple Records (disambiguation), several record labels
• Temple US Records, a record label

Music and books

• Temple (Christian rock band)
• Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
• Temple, a soloist project of guitarist Walter Giardino
• The Temple (novel), by Stephen Spender, written in 1928 and published in 1988
• The Temple (Lovecraft short story), by H.P. Lovecraft (1920)
• The Temple (Oates short story), by Joyce Carol Oates (1996)
• "The Temple", a song by the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (album)

Other uses

• Haykal, a term used in the writings of the Bahá'í faith, meaning temple or human body

See also

• All pages beginning with "Temple"