temple grounds
Holy site area
The temple grounds are the outdoor areas surrounding a temple, including gardens, courtyards, pathways, and ceremonial spaces.
The term appears most often in contexts involving Asian religious sites—Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu—where the surrounding landscape is integral to the sacred space: We walked through the temple grounds at dawn.
The grounds may include subsidiary shrines, meditation areas, or burial sites.
- pagodaTiered Asian temple tower
- shrineSacred devotional place
- gatehouseStructure over an entrance
- sacred treeReligiously revered woody plant
- sacred groveWoodland deemed divine
cherry blossoms · prayer circle · prayer wheel · garden · koi pond · offering box · stupa · bell tower · monastery · ashram · incense burner · incense smoke · ablution fountain · courtyard · pond · rock formations · assembly hall · prayer flags
- kung fukung fu, wushu, Shaolin, tai chi, taijiquan
- historic sitesruins, historic site, basilica, monument, fortress
- sacred sitesBuddhist temples, Jerusalem, consecrated ground, Hindu temples, sacred rivers
- forbidden placesno-go zone, no-go area, restricted area, restricted zone, black site
- LDS Templesbaptismal font, sealing, endowment, initiatory, washing
- Asian TemplesAngkor Wat, pagoda, stupa, prang
temple groundsmarketplace
Venue for commerce
commercial district · red-light district · slaughterhouse · industrial zone · shopping mall
temple groundsinner sanctuary
Most sacred interior space
holy of holies · sanctum · inner sanctum · altar · nave