temple-going
Visiting sacred spaces
Temple-going describes the practice of regularly attending a temple for worship or religious observance: a temple-going family, the temple-going Hindu community.
The term parallels churchgoing, typically describing those who maintain active participation in their faith tradition rather than merely nominal membership.
Religious reverence and praise
- prayerAddress to deity
- pietySincere religious devotion
- faithTrust without proof
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
devout · religious · spiritual · observance · ritual · sacred · blessing · offering
Occurring at fixed intervals
- weeklyEvery seven days
- dailyPer diem, repeated
- habitualDone by routine
- attendanceRecord of who's present
schedule · tradition · practice · Sunday · Sabbath · festival · holiday · seasonal
Assembled group of worshippers
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- sanghaBuddhist religious community
- parishLocal church community
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
socializing · belonging · kinship · elders · priests · monks · devotees · parishioners
worship
Religious reverence and praise
reverence · devout · religious · spiritual · observance · ritual · sacred · blessing · offering · pilgrimage
regular
Occurring at fixed intervals
attendance · schedule · tradition · practice · Sunday · Sabbath · festival · holiday · seasonal · annual
congregation
Assembled group of worshippers
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- sanghaBuddhist religious community
- parishLocal church community
gathering · socializing · belonging · kinship · elders · priests · monks · devotees · parishioners · neighbors
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
ancestral · ethnic · immigrant · diaspora · Hindu · Buddhist · Sikh · Shinto · Jewish · preservation
temple-goingnon-practicing
Not exercising one's faith
lapsed · unchurched · irreligious · backsliding · inactive
temple-goingsecular
Nonreligious, worldly
irreligious · nonreligious · unchurched · nonpracticing · godless
temple-goingunaffiliated
Not formally connected
unchurched · disaffiliated · unattached · spiritual but not religious · none
going, temple, temporal, temples, contemplate, contemplated, contemplation, contemplating, contemplative