joss houses
Identification code: 300386079
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Built Environment (hierarchy name)
- Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
- single built works (built environment)
- [single built works by specific type]
- [single built works by function]
- ceremonial structures
- religious structures
- religious buildings
- temples (buildings)
- [temples by function]
Alternative term/s
- houses, joss
- joss house
- joss-houses
Anotations
Scope note:
Worship place of the Chinese folk religion Shenism, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. The term is now generally considered pejorative.
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