place of worship

Questions about place of worship

What does place of worship mean?

place of worship means "any building where congregations gather for prayer".

What is another word for place of worship?

Close synonyms include house of prayer, house of God, house of worship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is place of worship a common word?

place of worship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.