Bayt
Appearance
Bayt (Arabic: بيت or Hebrew: בית, both meaning 'house'; there are similar words in various Semitic languages), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may refer to:
All pages with titles containing Bayt
[edit]Jewish religious terms
[edit]- Temple Mount, Hebrew Har ha-Bayit, "Mount of the House"
- Beth Israel, "House of Israel"
Islamic terms
[edit]- Ahl al-Bayt, the People of the House, referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims
Synagogues
[edit]- Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Place-names and derivates
[edit]In alphabetical order including the articles.
Bayit
[edit]Bayt
[edit]A few outstanding ones:
- Bayt al-Allah (the Kaaba)
- Bayt al-Muqaddas (Jerusalem)
Beit
[edit]Beth
[edit]Institutions and organizations
[edit]First see above under "All pages with titles beginning with Bayt" and "All pages with titles containing Bayt". Here only those not spelled with "bayt".
- Bayit Lepletot, Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls
- Bayit Leumi Israeli political organization
- Bayit Yehudi – 'The Jewish Home' political party
- Bayt al-hikmah (House of Wisdom); Umayyad library in Damascus, and Abbasid library in Baghdad
- Betar/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress
Other
[edit]- Bayt (poetry), lit. 'house', a metrical unit of Asian poetry
See also
[edit]- Bet (disambiguation)
- Bet (letter), derived from the hyeroglyph for house
- Beth (disambiguation)