Key:religion

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Religious syms.svg
Description
Defines the specific religion. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: religion
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 17
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Status: de facto

Covering an assortment of community facilities including churches and confessional schools.

How to map

Place of worship

Confessional cemetery

Confessional schools, kindergartens, social facilities

Confessional schools amenity=school, kindergartens amenity=kindergarten, social facilities amenity=social_facility get the tags religion=* + denomination=*.

Example
amenity=school
religion=christian
denomination=catholic
name=St. Paulus Grundschule

A shop selling merchandise related to religion

Religious communities

Religious communities can also get tags religion=* and denomination=*.

Mapping monasteries

See : Mapping_monasteries


Values for religion

(This is not an exhaustive list)

Value Wikipedia Possible rendering Possible rendering,
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Taginfo Note
buddhist  Buddhism
2020 stBN placeofworship buddhist.svg
Buddhist-16.svg
Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place for Chinese Buddhism.
christian  Christianity
2020 stBN placeofworship christian.svg
Christian-16.svg
hindu  Hinduism
2020 stBN placeofworship hindu.svg
Hinduist-16.svg
jain  Jainism
2020 stBN placeofworship jain.svg
Place-of-worship-16.svg
jewish  Judaism
2020 stBN placeofworship jewish.svg
Jewish-16.svg
muslim  Islam
2020 stBN placeofworship muslim.svg
Muslim-16.svg
pagan  Paganism
2020 stBN placeofworship pagan.svg
Place-of-worship-16.svg
shinto  Shinto
2020 stBN placeofworship shinto.svg
Shintoist-16.svg
sikh  Sikhism
2020 stBN placeofworship sikh.svg
Sikhist-16.svg
taoist  Taoism
2020 stBN placeofworship taoist.svg
Taoist-16.svg
Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place of worship.
zoroastrian  Zoroastrianism
2020 stBN placeofworship zoroastrian.svg
Place-of-worship-16.svg
Other values without specifications of denomination
ancestor  Veneration of the dead
Place-of-worship-16.svg
animist  Animism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
antoinist  Antoinism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
bahai  Bahá'í
2020 stBN placeofworship bahai.svg
Place-of-worship-16.svg
benzhu  Benzhuism
caodaism  Caodaism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
chinese_folk  Chinese folk religion Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place.
confucian  Confucianism
木鐸 --- Confucian wooden-clapper bell.svg
Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place especially if it's mainly worshipping anyone other than Confucius.
shamanic  Shamanism
scientologist  Scientology
2020 stBN placeofworship scientologist.svg
Place-of-worship-16.svg
self-realization_fellowship  Self-Realization Fellowship
Place-of-worship-16.svg
spiritualist  Spiritualism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
tenrikyo  Tenrikyo
unitarian_universalist  Unitarian Universalism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
vietnamese_folk  Vietnamese folk
voodoo  Voodoo
Place-of-worship-16.svg
yazidi  Yazidism
Place-of-worship-16.svg
multifaith not dedicated to any specific religion
Place-of-worship-16.svg
other/unspecified religion All commonly used values according to Taginfo. Please avoid using Capital Letters
Place-of-worship-16.svg
none Some de-facto used religion-values for irreligious use are: none (numbering 1282 uses to date), no, all, humanist, atheist, null, laica
See e.g.  Atheism or  Secular Humanism
These values are used for non-religions. Other tagging might be considered. See talk-page for the tag religion, Talk:Key:religion#Explicit_absense_of_religion
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May be used to describe rare cases of religious objects, like a temple or a cemetery, shared by a limited number of multiple but specific religions.

For example, a particular religious cemetery that is both christian and jewish may be tagged as landuse=cemetery + religion=christian;jewish

This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

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