Gospel Halls

A House of Prayer is a building with ecclesiastical function, held in the church services and other events of a church community. Synagogues and mosques are also called prayer houses. In many cases, prayer houses were originally built or now serve as temporary. Architecturally, they are different from churches often by the lack of a clock tower. They are visible from the outside as an assembly building or act like a bigger house.

Christian houses of worship

Based on Isaiah ( 56.7 ELB ) and Matthew (Mt 21:13 NIV ) cite various (mostly free church ) Christian associations their church buildings house of prayer. The prayer house of the Baptists in the field is the oldest free church prayer house of Germany, which is still used for worship.

In many cases, erected emigrants from Germany who settled in the 19th century in the Russian Empire, in their villages an house of prayer. This was the case, could not build a larger church building especially in smaller villages. In the house of prayer service was held Sunday in the week it was the school building. Because the building had no bell tower, the church bell was hung in a separate wooden tower next to the house of prayer.

The Huthaus or Zechenhaus was the traditional house of prayer in the mining operation, in which the miners were praying for a safe return from the mountain before they entered the pit. One of the few remaining houses of worship of mining in Germany is located in the Muttental in Witten.

In the Habsburg Empire Protestant church buildings until the 19th century were limited to articular and Toleranzbethäuser.

Prayer house of the former Mennonite Church in Maxweiler

Bessarabia German house of prayer in Hannowka with a separate bell tower, about 1940

Mine prayer house of the "old murder pit " in the Ore Mountains