What is the name of the place of worship of Jehovah's Witnesses?
"than a week after the decision, a Kingdom Hall in Kennebunk, Maine was burnt down. American Legion posts harassed Witnesses nationwide. At Klamath Falls, Oregon, members of the American Legion harassed Witnesses assembled for worship with requests to salute the flag and buy war bonds. The Legion then attacked the Witnesses and besieged the meeting place, breaking windows, throwing in stink bombs, ammonia, and burning kerosene rags. The Witnesses' cars were disabled and many were overturned. The governor was compelled to call the state militia to disperse the mob, which reached 1000 at its peak. In Texas, missionaries were chased"
"Kingdom Hall A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these buildings would be used for ""preaching the good news of the Kingdom"". Jehovah's Witnesses use Kingdom Halls for the majority of their worship and Bible instruction. Witnesses prefer the term ""Kingdom Hall"" over ""church"", noting that the term often translated ""church"" in the Bible refers to the congregation of people rather than a structure. Kingdom Halls are typically"
"donations to a local fund. Kingdom Hall A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these buildings would be used for ""preaching the good news of the Kingdom"". Jehovah's Witnesses use Kingdom Halls for the majority of their worship and Bible instruction. Witnesses prefer the term ""Kingdom Hall"" over ""church"", noting that the term often translated ""church"" in the Bible refers to the congregation of people rather than a"
"Gethsemane Gethsemane (, ""Gethsemane""; , ""Gat Shmanim""; , ""Gaḏ Šmānê"", lit. ""oil press"") is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before his crucifixion; i.e. the site recorded as where the agony in the garden took place. ""Gethsemane"" appears in the Greek original of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark as Γεθσημανή (""Gethsēmanē""). The name is derived from the Aramaic ܓܕܣܡܢ (Gaḏ-Šmānê), meaning ""oil press"". and call it χωρἰον (18:1), meaning a place or estate. The Gospel"
"Gethsemane Cemetery The Gethsemane Cemetery is located in Little Ferry, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States on an acre on a sandy hill just off U.S. Route 46 and Liberty Street. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1994. Gethsemane (Greek ΓεΘσημανἰ, Gethsēmani Hebrew:גת שמנים, Aramaic:גת שמני, Gath-Šmânê, Assyrian ܓܕܣܡܢ, Gat Šmānê, lit. ""oil press"") is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus and his disciples prayed the night before Jesus' crucifixion. The cemetery was opened in 1860 as a burial"
"years old. Works cited Gethsemane Gethsemane (, ""Gethsemane""; , ""Gat Shmanim""; , ""Gaḏ Šmānê"", lit. ""oil press"") is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before his crucifixion; i.e. the site recorded as where the agony in the garden took place. ""Gethsemane"" appears in the Greek original of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark as Γεθσημανή (""Gethsēmanē""). The name is derived from the Aramaic ܓܕܣܡܢ (Gaḏ-Šmānê), meaning ""oil press"". and call it χωρἰον (18:1), meaning a place"
"Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem The Chapel of the Ascension ( ""Kapelat ha-Aliyya"", , ""Ekklisáki tis Analípseos"") is a shrine located on the Mount of Olives, in the At-Tur district of Jerusalem. Part of a larger complex consisting first of a Christian church and monastery, then an Islamic mosque, it is located on a site the faithful traditionally believe to be the earthly spot where Jesus ascended into Heaven after his resurrection. It houses a slab of stone believed to contain one of his footprints. The ""Status Quo"", a 250-year old understanding between religious communities, applies to the site. Shortly"
"Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.5 million adherents involved in evangelism and an annual Memorial attendance of around 20 million. Jehovah's Witnesses are directed by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of elders in Warwick, New York, which establishes all doctrines based on its interpretations of the Bible. They believe that the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon is imminent, and that the establishment of God's kingdom over the earth is the only solution for all"
"considered to constitute ""an unusual threat to the flock."" Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses are organized hierarchically, and are led by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from the Watch Tower Society's headquarters in Warwick, New York. The Governing Body, along with other ""helpers"", are organized into six committees responsible for various administrative functions within the global Witness community, including publication, assembly programs and evangelizing activity. The Governing Body and its committees supervise operations of nearly one hundred ""branch offices"" worldwide. Each branch office oversees the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in a particular country or region, and may"
"of the prophecy of 2300 days at Daniel 8:13–14, and that God's sanctuary (the Watch Tower Society) was thereby cleansed. At a 1931 Bible Student assembly in Columbus, Ohio Rutherford proposed a new name for the organization, ""Jehovah's witnesses"", to differentiate them from the proliferation of other groups that followed Russell's teachings. Bible Students who opposed or abandoned Rutherford to form new groups were increasingly described as the ""evil servant class"" by ""The Watchtower"", which said it was wrong to pray for those who were ""unfaithful"". Four years later the term ""Kingdom Hall"" was introduced for the local meeting place"
"Where there is more than one auditorium, each auditorium or the entire structure may be referred to as ""a Kingdom Hall"". Larger ""Assembly Halls"" or ""Convention Centers of Jehovah's Witnesses"", or any rented arena or stadium used for larger gatherings of Jehovah's Witnesses are also regarded 'as a large Kingdom Hall'; undignified behavior is considered inappropriate during their religious events, even if the facility is an entertainment venue. Congregations typically meet in their Kingdom Halls two days each week for worship. Meetings usually open and close with song and prayer. Meetings held in the Kingdom Hall include Bible readings and"
"found in Barcelona, Spain which can accommodate 1,360 worshipers at a time. INC bought the property from Jehovah's Witnesses and it was dedicated on July 2012. The most expensive house of worship of the INC can be found in Washington DC. Acquisition and renovations costed more than US$10.6 million. The property includes a school building which was formerly owned by Helen and Constantine Greek Orthodox Church. The house of worship was dedicated in December 2012. On July 21, 2014, Philippine president Benigno Aquino III and Manalo led the inauguration of Ciudad de Victoria, a 140-hectare tourism zone in Bocaue and"
"is not clear in the Masoretic Text, and the text could be corrupted at this point. It reads ""The Reubenites and the Gadites named the altar because it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God."" Some textual scholars suspect that the name of the altar must have been dropped by a copyist, either deliberately or unintentionally. Witness (altar) Witness is the name of an altar referred to in . Its name appears as ""Witness"" in the New King James Version, the English Standard Version and the New Living Translation. The Geneva Bible and the King James Version transliterate"
"can be heard awaiting Judgment Day. The name has also been applied to a depression in the floor of this cave and a hypothetical chamber that may exist beneath it. For Christians, the site is known as the Holy of Holies (alluding to the former inner sanctuary within the Temple in Jerusalem) and is venerated as a possible site of the annunciation of John the Baptist, since Luke says it happened in the Temple. The site has never been subject to an archeological investigation and political and diplomatic sensitivities currently preclude this. The Dome of the Rock — called ""Qubbat"
"Church of Christ (Temple Lot) The Church of Christ, informally called ""Hedrickites"" and the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri, on what is known as the Temple Lot. The nickname for members of the church comes from the surname of Granville Hedrick, who was ordained as the church's leader in July 1863. Unlike The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Community of Christ, the Temple Lot church rejects the office of prophet or president, being instead led by its Quorum of Twelve Apostles. The"
"Temple in Jerusalem The Temple in Jerusalem was any of a series of structures which were located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. These successive temples stood at this location and functioned as a site of ancient Israelite and later Jewish worship. It is also called the Holy Temple (, Modern: ""Bēt HaMīqdaš"", Tiberian: ""Bēṯ HaMīqdāš"", Ashkenazi: ""Bēs HaMīqdoš""; Arabic: بيت المقدس ""Beit Al-Maqdis""; : ""Betä Mäqdäs""). The Hebrew name given in the Hebrew Bible for the building complex is either ""Beit YHWH"", ""Beit"
"and acquired the name that it is still known by today. By 1822 membership at the church had risen to well over 200. By the mid-1870s membership had risen to around 500 causing the church to move again this time to Victoria Street where they built a chapel which was home until the 1940s when it was bombed during World War II . The Church used several temporary venues during this time before they moved to the Hengrove Hall in Whitchurch (Now known as the Kingdom Hall and used by the Jehovah's Witnesses). In 1948 the church moved to the"
"with its host star. Tophet In the Hebrew Bible, Tophet or Topheth (; ; ) was a location in Jerusalem in the Gehinnom where worshipers influenced by the ancient Canaanite religion engaged in the human sacrifice of children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive. Tophet became a theological or poetic synonym for Hell within Christendom. The traditional explanation that a burning rubbish heap in the Valley of Hinnom south of Jerusalem gave rise to the idea of a fiery Gehenna of judgment is attributed to Rabbi David Kimhi's commentary on . He maintained that in this"
"of Jerusalem. Rashi identifies the location as the source of ""joy"" mentioned in the Psalm as the Temple Courtyard, the location of atonement offerings in the northern part of the Temple complex. In the New Testament, Mount Zion is used metaphorically to refer to the heavenly Jerusalem, God’s holy, eternal city. Christians are said to have “ . . . come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven” (Hebrews 12:22-23 cf. Revelation 14:1)."
"Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses are organized hierarchically, and are led by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from the Watch Tower Society's headquarters in Warwick, New York. The Governing Body, along with other ""helpers"", are organized into six committees responsible for various administrative functions within the global Witness community, including publication, assembly programs and evangelizing activity. The Governing Body and its committees supervise operations of nearly one hundred ""branch offices"" worldwide. Each branch office oversees the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in a particular country or region, and may include facilities for the publication and distribution of Watch"
"Witness (altar) Witness is the name of an altar referred to in . Its name appears as ""Witness"" in the New King James Version, the English Standard Version and the New Living Translation. The Geneva Bible and the King James Version transliterate the original Hebrew word Ed, while the New International Version regards all of the following words as the name of the altar: ""A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God"". The New Century Version recalls the altar's name as ""Proof That We Believe the Lord Is God"". The New American Standard Bible calls it ""the Offensive Altar""."
"Church of All Nations The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church or Basilica of the Agony, is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed before his arrest. () The current church rests on the foundations of two earlier ones, that of a small 12th century Crusader chapel abandoned in 1345, and a 4th-century Byzantine basilica, destroyed by an earthquake in 746. In 1920, during work on the foundations, a column was found two"
"the Church of Jerusalem, bids health in the Lord and the blessing of the Holy Spirit to his beloved sons in Christ, B. and the other hermits under obedience to him, who live near the spring on Mount Carmel. [2] Many and varied are the ways in which our saintly forefathers laid down how everyone, whatever his station or the kind of religious observance he has chosen, should live a life in allegiance to Jesus Christ – how, pure in heart and stout in conscience, he must be unswerving in the service of the Master. [3] It is to me,"
"Eli and Samuel ministered () and Shiloh was the site of a physical structure that had ""doors"" (). At some point, the Tent of Meeting was moved to Gibeon, which became an Israelite holy site under David and Solomon. Shiloh was one of the main centers of Israelite worship during the pre-monarchic period, by virtue of the presence there of the Tent Shrine and Ark of the Covenant. The people made pilgrimages there for major feasts and sacrifices, and Judges 21 records the place as the site of an annual dance of maidens among the vineyards. According to , the"
"Church of the Beatitudes The Church of the Beatitudes () is a Roman Catholic church located by the Sea of Galilee near Tabgha and Capernaum in Israel. Located on a small hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and built on the traditional site of Jesus delivery of the Sermon on the Mount, pilgrims are known to have commemorated this site since at least the 4th century. In her itinerary of the Holy Land, after describing the Church of the Loaves and Fishes, the pilgrim Egeria (ca. 381 CE) writes, ""Near there on a mountain is the cave to which the"
"Witnesses are taught Jesus uses as a channel for God's progressive revelations and to direct Christians on biblical matters. Until late 2012, the Governing Body described itself as the representative and ""spokesman"" for God's ""faithful and discreet slave class"" (a limited number of ""anointed"" Jehovah's Witnesses). The Governing Body seeks neither advice nor approval from any ""anointed"" Witnesses other than high-ranking members at the Brooklyn headquarters. At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Watch Tower Society, the ""faithful and discreet slave"" was defined as referring to the Governing Body only. Jehovah's Witnesses are directed to welcome doctrinal changes, regarding such"
"Gehenna Gehenna is a small valley in Jerusalem. In the Hebrew Bible, Gehenna was initially where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire. Thereafter, it was deemed to be cursed (, ). In rabbinic literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, Gehenna is a destination of the wicked. This is different from the more neutral Sheol/Hades, the abode of the dead, although the King James Version of the Bible usually translates both with the Anglo-Saxon word Hell. In the King James Version of the Bible, the term appears 13 times in 11 different verses as Valley of"
"though personal ideas derived from independent study are discouraged. The midweek meeting, typically held in the evening, includes various question-and-answer sessions based on Watch Tower Society publications, Bible reading, and sample presentations of how to use Watch Tower Society literature for Bible studies and public preaching. Jehovah's Witnesses commemorate Christ's death as a ransom or ""propitiatory sacrifice"" by observing the Lord's Evening Meal, or Memorial. They celebrate it once per year, noting that it was instituted on the Passover, an annual festival. They observe it on Nisan 14 according to the ancient Jewish luni-solar calendar. Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that"
"rented stadiums or auditoriums. Their most important and solemn event is the commemoration of the ""Lord's Evening Meal"", or ""Memorial of Christ's Death"" on the date of the Jewish Passover. Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps best known for their efforts to spread their beliefs, most notably by visiting people from house to house, distributing literature published by the Watch Tower Society in 700 languages. The objective is to start a regular ""Bible study"" with any person who is not already a member, with the intention that the student be baptized as a member of the group; Witnesses are advised to consider"
"Temple Mount The Temple Mount (, Har HaBáyit, ""Mount of the House (of God, i.e. the Temple in Jerusalem)""), known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif (, ""al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf"", ""the Noble Sanctuary"", or , ""al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf"", ""the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem"") and the Al Aqsa Compound is a hill located in the Old City of Jerusalem that for thousands of years has been venerated as a holy site, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike. The present site is a flat plaza surrounded by retaining walls (including the Western Wall) which was built during the reign of Herod the Great"
"Holy of Holies The Holy of Holies (Tiberian Hebrew: ""Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm"") is a term in the Hebrew Bible which refers to the inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle where God's presence appeared. The Ark according to Hebrew Scripture contained the Ten Commandments, which were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. The area was defined by four pillars which held up the veil of the covering, under which the Ark of the Covenant was held above the floor. King Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, where the Ark of the Covenant was supposed to be kept. The Crusaders associated it"
"in the aron kodesh on the east wall. The congregation face towards the east, and Jerusalem, in prayer. The ornamentation features symbols such as Stars of David, and natural forms. The synagogue was moved to Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary at a cost of over a million dollars in 2008, becoming the first Jewish house of worship to be housed in a Canadian historic park. About 2,000 people attended the dedication of the synagogue in its new location on June 28, 2009. With an area of approximately 74 square meters, the building was constructed on the farm of Joseph,"
"Imam Husayn shrine (which is visited by more pilgrims than any other holy site in any religion. More than 18 millions people visited on the day of Ashura in 2018) In Jewish tradition, the Temple Mount is regarded as the place where God chose the Divine Presence to rest. Jewish tradition regards the Mount, or the Foundation Stone, as the location of a number of important events mentioned in the Bible, including the location from which the world expanded into its present form, Abraham's binding of Isaac, Jacob's dream, the threshing floor which King David purchased from Araunah the Jebusite,"