temple

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The attack on the historic temple was the first such incident in the city since the Holocaust, according to local officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Designed to look like a temple, the house was built in Indonesia, disassembled and rebuilt on the Big Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"This was a matter of when, not if," Stern said she told someone while waiting across the street from the temple Thursday afternoon.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Once a month, he’d cook some 400 hot meals that the temple would send to a homeless shelter in Stockton, and he’d also prepared food for people displaced by wildfires, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

My mind was racing back to the moment in the courtyard of the temple, when Brother Zesht first picked up a rock before I took off running.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri