Key:religion

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Public-images-osm logo.svg religion
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 areasshould not be used on relations
Documented values: 14
Useful combination
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,
alternative version
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
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
Place-of-worship-16.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.