An Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof.

Roget 1000: place of worship; house of God, house of prayer.    temple, cathedral, minster^†, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel^†, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane^†, holy place, chantry^†, oratory.    synagogue; mosque; marabout^†; pantheon; pagoda; joss house^†; dogobah^†, tope; kiosk; kiack^†, masjid^†.    [clergymen's residence] parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe; Vatican; bishop's palace; Lambeth.    altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum [Lat.], sacristy; sacrarium^†; communion table, holy table, Lord's table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina^†, stoup; aumbry^†; sedile^†; reredos; rood loft, rood screen.    [parts of a church: list] chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo^†, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis^†, credence, baldachin, baldacchino^†; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum [Lat.], jube^†; mourner's bench, mourner's seat.    [exterior adjacent to a church] cloisters, churchyard.    monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.    ... show more

Dutch: pagode
Polish: pagoda