synagogue

Noun
  1. (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation (synset 104381822)
    referred to in: judaism - the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
    is a type of: house of god, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer
    specific instances: temple of jerusalem, temple of solomon - any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
    same as: tabernacle, temple

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