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An edifice for the worship of a deity, a place devoted to a special or exalted purpose. This word is Latin templum, from Greek temenus, a sacred enclosure, i.e. a space cut off from its surroundings (Greek temnein, 'to cut').
The Latin templum originally denoted the space marked out by the augurs within which the foretelling sign was to occur.
Also, the site between Fleet Street and the Thames, near Holborn Bars in London, formerly occupied by the building of the Templars (circa 1160-1312) of which the Temple Church, one of the four circular churches built in England by them, is the only portion remaining.
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Sources: (1) Walker, Charles, The Encyclopedia of the Occult, Random House Value; (2) Steiger, Brad and Sherry Hansen, The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained, Thomson Gale Publishing.
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