monastery building {abbey}.
Domed round or polygonal buildings {baptistery} are for baptizing.
Churches can have long halls {basilica}|.
Early Renaissance churches {central plan church} had polygon shapes.
Domed round or polygonal buildings {chapel}| are for funerals.
monastery, convent, or covered columned walkway {cloister}.
nuns' building {convent}.
Mosques {madrasah} can have open squares with four rectangular, vaulted side halls. Domes can be over open squares.
Late New Stone Age peoples built large stone monuments {megalith}, using tall massive stones, with stones {cromlech} across tops, arranged in concentric rings.
cathedral or monastery church {minster}.
monks' building {monastery}.
nuns' building {nunnery}.
Buddhist temple or tower {pagoda}.
parson's home {parsonage}.
monastery or convent {priory}.
school-headmaster or parish-priest home {rectory}.
Church rooms {sacristy} can be for ceremonial utensils and clothes.
church {sanctuary}.
large temple or Eucharist-items holder {tabernacle}.
Jerusalem wall remnant {Wailing Wall} can be old-temple remains.
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