What is "houses of worship"

Usage examples of "houses of worship".

This argument, which supposes that the churches have been suffered to fall, only because they were no longer necessary, would have some force, if the houses of worship still remaining were sufficient for the people.

There are three Zen Gnostic assemblies and four High Muslim mosques in the town, but the real houses of worship are the countless saloons and brothels, the huge marketplaces handling the fiberplastic shipments from the south, and the Shrike Cult temples where lost souls hide their suicidal hopelessness behind a shield of shallow mysticism.

But then he supposed that space on the lower levels of the temple would probably be at a premium, already occupied by the various Houses of worship.

He can see part of the central plaza, the giant ovoids of the city hall, the federal bureaus, the Folk Center, part of the massive spiral on which set the houses of worship, and the dora (from pandora) where those on the purple wage get their goods and those with extra income get their goodies.

People in houses of worship therefore had to have clocks, and they got rid of water and its inconveniences by making use of gravity instead.

They would never return to see it portioned into pastures for the rich, burned, sacked, or paved, or renamed, its monuments and houses of worship razed and replaced, or its industries mechanized, or the streets giving way to malls and lots, or the air jets of a city in the sky….

The assaults were similar to Crystal Night, when the Gestapo orchestrated acts of vandalism against Jewish houses of worship, cemeteries, hospitals, schools, homes, and businesses throughout Germany.