temple

Space dedicated to religious worship, prayer, rituals, or other religious activity by adherents to miscellaneous religions outside the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, or by sects which use this word specifically for their houses of worship.

The space is dedicated to worship or other religious activity by the community concerned. The term can therefore describe a worship space without prescribing one structural form.

The stated exception includes religious groups that specifically call their houses of worship temples. That use of the name is distinct from assuming that every sacred space belongs to the same tradition.