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The congregations are the centre of religious life.

Before the Reformation, the town was the centre of religious life in medieval Scotland, with the bishops wielding great influence over both church and state.

The foundation to Rinchenpung was laid in 1806 and the temple became the centre of religious life in Pemakö.

The building set the seal on the work of the early pioneers and for a generation remained a centre of religious life for Queensland's Greeks.

Old-Rus' manuscripts also mention the Zarubskyi Monastery (1147) - an important centre of religious life in Ukraine.

The wat (Buddhist monastery) and Sangha (monkhood), together with essential Buddhist doctrines such as reincarnation and the accumulation of merit, are at the centre of religious life, but interact with indigenous beliefs such as the central role of ancestors and spirits.

Jerusalem was the center of religious life and any challenge to the existing order must come from there.

From the outside, the complex is underwhelming and looks more like a boarding school than a center of religious life.

It became a center of religious life and a community of canons developed in the church.

The congregations are the centre of religious life.

They remain the centers of religious life for the local population and are attended regularly, while some are often crowded on Sundays.

The center of religious life is community.”

"Instead of serving as a center of religious life, it was employed as a bastion in the attack."

Before the Reformation, the town was the centre of religious life in medieval Scotland, with the bishops wielding great influence over both church and state.

The foundation to Rinchenpung was laid in 1806 and the temple became the centre of religious life in Pemakö.

It was built during the 1600s and became the center of religious life in Kalmar Cathedral, justice, education, commerce and municipal management.

The building set the seal on the work of the early pioneers and for a generation remained a centre of religious life for Queensland's Greeks.

Old-Rus' manuscripts also mention the Zarubskyi Monastery (1147) - an important centre of religious life in Ukraine.

The church today is the center of religious life of Villanova University and the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova.

The cathedral church of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), was the center of religious life in the eastern Christian world.

Damascus witnessed the establishment of several religious institutions under the Ayyubids, but the Umayyad Mosque retained his place as the center of religious life in the city.

It was the center of religious life for all Jews, even those who lived in the diaspora prayed towards Jerusalem on a daily basis and made pilgrimages during religious festivals.

During the interwar period, the two formal centers of religious life were the traditionalist Great Synagogue and the modern, western-style New Synagogue, called the German Shul.

With such arguments Joshua supported the efforts of his teacher to make the grief at the loss of the Temple, which until then had been the center of religious life, less bitter.

The school, a center of religious life for students and their parents, had been relying on a sale of some of its property to stay afloat but land values dropped, forcing Morasha to shut down in June.

This theory is supported by historical sources that wrote about existence of centers of religious life (named Romuva, using the present-day variant of this word), concentrated around more significant shrines, holy and mystic areas.

A quarter of a century later, the Church of São Mateus da Ribeirinha was constructed, and would remain the center of religious life in the parish until the violent earthquake of July 9, 1998.

In a description by Francisco A. Chaves e Melo, the church in Pilar appeared as the center of religious life in this zone, before 1716, an area that encompassed not only present-day Pilar, but also João Bom.

The temple, consecrated to the Mesopotamian god Bel, worshipped at Palmyra in triad with the lunar god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra and was dedicated in 32 AD.

The vodun are the center of religious life, similar in many ways to doctrines such as the intercession of saints and angels that made Vodun appear compatible with Christianity, especially Catholicism, and produced syncretic religions such as Haitian Vodou.

The wat (Buddhist monastery) and Sangha (monkhood), together with essential Buddhist doctrines such as reincarnation and the accumulation of merit, are at the centre of religious life, but interact with indigenous beliefs such as the central role of ancestors and spirits.