Place of worship

As a place of worship or a sacred place of worship, geographically distinctive or separated and used for the exercise of cults place is called. The concept of worship aims here from particular places and constructions of the pre-and early history. Religious Buildings recent times, in particular Christian nature, on the other hand are considered to be sacred.

A place of worship is generally defined spatially. It may be enclosures, ditches, walls, stone circles, mounds or natural topographic barriers. In individual cases can be separated only by " the knowledge of the users anchored " barriers of the environment, a place of worship. Places of worship be used ( with a decreasing tendency) in certain cultures to this day, some were erected in their place later religious buildings (chapels, churches ) or settlements. Places of worship encounter often in conjunction with burial places, or served as a tomb of a politically and religiously significant person.

Places of worship were the one of natural character. These included sacred mountains, sacred well, rock sanctuaries, holy stones, high places, peak sanctuaries, cave shrines, saints Islands ( heligo Country = Helgoland, Holy Iceland, in Anglesey, Holy Isle off the Isle of Arran, Inish Cealtra in Lough Derg, Ireland) Holy springs equipped with special places of worship: Rose island, Sylt), or caves, lakes, forests and bogs. Frequently up to the present time at the naming is the former character as a place of worship recognizable (eg Odense Odin lake, Thor Lund - Thor's Forest). Likewise, characterized certain distinctive trees, or they marked places ( sacred grove ) a place of worship.

Places of worship were designed for other, defined districts. Gained notoriety as the megalithic Stonehenge in England, Maltese temples or temples like Karnak in Egypt.

The Stones of Megalithic, slabs, columns, or stelae came to different cultic functions. She served as an altar about, to make present the deceased or the representative of various deities.