Key:religion

religion
Description
Defines the specific religion.
Group: religion
Used on these elements
Documented values: 17
Requires
amenity=place_of_worship OR historic=wayside_shrine OR landuse=cemetery OR amenity=school OR amenity=kindergarten OR amenity=social_facility OR shop=religion OR community=*
Useful combination
denomination=*
Status: de facto
religion=* More details at taginfo
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Covering an assortment of community facilities including churches and confessional schools.

How to map

Place of worship

• amenity=place_of_worship mandatory
• religion=*
• denomination=* for example protestant, roman_catholic etc.
• name=*
• building=* building type: cathedral, church, chapel, mosque etc.
• opening_hours=*
• service_times=*
• contact:website=*

Confessional cemetery

• landuse=cemetery mandatory
• religion=*
• denomination=*

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

• shop=religion mandatory
• religion=*
• denomination=*

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			religion=buddhist More details at taginfo	Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place for Chinese Buddhism.
christian	Christianity			religion=christian More details at taginfo	Since several main Christian denominations (including Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons) reject the cross, care should especially be used not to show this symbol in combination with denomination=jehovahs_witness, denomination=mormon, denomination=la_luz_del_mundo and denomination=iglesia_ni_cristo. Many other denominations, while not rejecting the cross, do not use it in worship, so a more generic symbol may be appropriate depending on audience. As such, instead of being used by default, this symbol could instead be reserved for denominations which strongly identify with the cross such as Catholic and Orthodox denominations. Protestant denominations also generally use the cross but prefer an empty (outlined) cross rather than a solid (filled) one.
hindu	Hinduism			religion=hindu More details at taginfo
jain	Jainism			religion=jain More details at taginfo
jewish	Judaism			religion=jewish More details at taginfo
muslim	Islam			religion=muslim More details at taginfo
pagan	Paganism			religion=pagan More details at taginfo
shinto	Shinto			religion=shinto More details at taginfo
sikh	Sikhism			religion=sikh More details at taginfo
taoist	Taoism			religion=taoist More details at taginfo	Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place of worship.
zoroastrian	Zoroastrianism			religion=zoroastrian More details at taginfo
Other values without specifications of denomination
ancestor	Veneration of the dead			religion=ancestor More details at taginfo
animist	Animism			religion=animist More details at taginfo
antoinist	Antoinism			religion=antoinist More details at taginfo
bahai	Bahá'í			religion=bahai More details at taginfo
benzhu	Benzhuism			religion=benzhu More details at taginfo
caodaism	Caodaism			religion=caodaism More details at taginfo
chinese_folk	Chinese folk religion			religion=chinese_folk More details at taginfo	Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place.
confucian	Confucianism			religion=confucian More details at taginfo	Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place especially if it's mainly worshipping anyone other than Confucius.
shamanic	Shamanism			religion=shamanic More details at taginfo
scientologist	Scientology			religion=scientologist More details at taginfo
self-realization_fellowship	Self-Realization Fellowship			religion=self-realization_fellowship More details at taginfo
spiritualist	Spiritualism			religion=spiritualist More details at taginfo
tenrikyo	Tenrikyo			religion=tenrikyo More details at taginfo
unitarian_universalist	Unitarian Universalism			religion=unitarian_universalist More details at taginfo
vietnamese_folk	Vietnamese folk			religion=vietnamese_folk More details at taginfo
voodoo	Voodoo			religion=voodoo More details at taginfo
yazidi	Yazidism			religion=yazidi More details at taginfo
multifaith	not dedicated to any specific religion			religion=multifaith More details at taginfo
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			religion=none More details at taginfo	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
separator	";" separator 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.

Possible tagging mistakes

religion=*

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More details at taginfo

• religion=*

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

religion=protestant

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More details at taginfo

• religion=protestant ‒ Use religion=christian + denomination=protestant instead.

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!