What is the temple, how it started and why are they so called?

What is the place where mainly we gather for public Worship?
The place is called temple, or Church.
What is the temple or Church?
Church or temple is the building designated solely for the administration of the divine service and, therefore, different from the other buildings and the external view and internal structure of their own.
What's in a name: "Church", "Church"?
The name of the temple is taken from the word temple, i.e. a building. The name of the Church is Greek and means "the house of the Lord."
Why the temple is called the house of the Lord or of God?
The temple is called the house of God first, because assigned to the service of God, and thus dedicated to Him, and God in a special way, like in heaven, dwells in him as in his house; secondly, because in the temple for worship is going to Church, that society of true believers, commonly called the Church.
Why temples are called resurrection one, the other Blagovest-sky, the third Mikhaylo-Arkhangelsky, Nikolsky?
Each of the temples is commonly dedicated to the memory or any sacred events, eg. of the resurrection, the Annunciation, or anyone from the saints of God, eg. archange-Lou Michael, St. Nicholas; because one of the temples, and called the name of the event — the resurrection, the Annunciation, the other the name of a Saint, Saint Michael the Archangel, St Nicholas.
Each of the temples is the house of God, so it is understandable why he and the other of them is dedicated to the memory of the life and deeds of the Lord; for what other temples are dedicated to saints?
As in baptism we accept the names of saints in order in particular to each of us to have in so the saints special patrons and mo-litvineko about yourself; and in the building of temples dedicated to saints, to the builders, i.e. all of the so-called brethren of the temple also (Especial. EKT.), or, to put it simply, the whole parish, and all parishioners to yield to special pokro-ernment them and have them in special prayer about themselves.
How and why is taken a tendency to dedicate churches to the saints?
It wont happened because in ancient times built temples largely on the graves of the martyrs, the names of which they were called (IIT. Smolt. § 39).
When and how to start churches?
At first there was no temple and the divine Service was celebrated under the open sky, and mainly in some special areas, for example, on the places of revelation of God, or on the mountains and in the forests, which are themselves disposed to prayer. Then, when Moses, at the command of God, was built the first temple of God.

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