Temple (disambiguation)

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A temple is a building used for religious practices and 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 glasses
• 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

People

• Temple (name), includes a 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

Other places

Schools

• Temple University, Pennsylvania
• Temple College, Texas

In music

• Temple Records (disambiguation), several record labels
• "Temple" (Kings of Leon song)
• "Temple", a song by Tonight Alive from their album Underworld
• "The Temple", a song from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
• Temple, a soloist project of guitarist Walter Giardino
• Temples (band), an English psychedelic rock band from Kettering

In literature

• Temple (novel), a 1999 novel by Matthew Reilly
• 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, the principle collection of poetry by George Herbert, published 1633

In film

• Temple (film), a 2017 horror film
• The Temple (film), an upcoming British film

See also

• All pages beginning with Temple