The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word TABERNACLE
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More clues leading to the result TABERNACLE
- Bad NBC are caught in lie, seeking sanctuary
- Sack cleaner holding up key centre of worship
- A celebrant converted in temple
- Item of furniture with unusual nacre inlay found in temple
- Temple altar, perhaps, inlaid with nacre design
- Place of worship a celebrant organised
- Celebrant wandering around a place of worship
- Temple altar, perhaps, inlaid with sort of nacre
- A celebrant converted in place of worship
- Place of worship gets a celebrant excited
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The straight part
We know that "centre of worship" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case centre of worship = tabernacle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TABERNACLE mean?
TABERNACLE noun- Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
- The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
- (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
- Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
- A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
- A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church.
- A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
- (by extension) Any house of worship; used especially of Mormon churches.
- Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
- A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
- To dwell; to abide for a time.