Key:religion

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religion
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
Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place for Chinese Buddhism.
christian Christianity
hindu Hinduism
jain Jainism
jewish Judaism
muslim Islam
pagan Paganism
shinto Shinto
sikh Sikhism
taoist Taoism
Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place of worship.
zoroastrian Zoroastrianism
Other values without specifications of denomination
ancestor Veneration of the dead
animist Animism
antoinist Antoinism
bahai Bahá'í
benzhu Benzhuism
caodaism Caodaism
chinese_folk Chinese folk religion Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place.
confucian Confucianism
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
self-realization_fellowship Self-Realization Fellowship
spiritualist Spiritualism
tenrikyo Tenrikyo
unitarian_universalist Unitarian Universalism
vietnamese_folk Vietnamese folk
voodoo Voodoo
yazidi Yazidism
multifaith not dedicated to any specific religion
other/unspecified religion All commonly used values according to Taginfo. Please avoid using Capital Letters
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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