Bayt (Arabic: or Hebrew: , both meaning ''house''; there are similar words in various Semitic languages), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may refer to:

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Jewish religious terms

* Temple Mount, Hebrew ''Har ha-Bayit'', "Mount of the House" * Beth Israel (disambiguation)Beth Israel, "House of Israel"

Islamic terms

* ''

Ahl al-Bayt Ahl al-Bayt ( ar, أَهْل ٱلْبَيْت, ) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the term has also been extended in Sunni Islam to apply to all descendants of the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and even to all Muslims. ...

'', the ''People of the House'', referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims

Synagogues

Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (), also known as the BAYT, is a synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, Ontario, and is one of the largest Orthodox synagogues in North America. It attracts Jews from a variety of religious backgrounds with w ...

, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Place-names and derivates

In alphabetical order including the articles.

Bayit

* Bayit VeGan

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Bayt al-Allah The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...

(the Kaaba) * Bayt al-Muqaddas (Jerusalem)

Beit

Beit Jala Beit Jala ( ar, ) is a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank. Beit Jala is located 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at altitude. In 2017, Beit Jala had ...

Beit Sahour Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur ( ar, بيت ساحور pronounced ; Palestine grid 170/123) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian town east of Bethlehem, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the ...

Beit Shemesh Beit Shemesh ( he, בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ ) is a city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of in . History Tel Beit Shemesh The small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city wa ...

* Beit Hanina * Beitin * Betar (fortress) ** Battir

Beth

Beth Alpha Beth Alpha (; ''Bet Alpha'', ''Bet Alfa'') is a sixth-century CE synagogue located at the foot of the northern slopes of the Gilboa mountains near Beit She'an, Israel.Avigad, "Beth Alpha", ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', 190. It is now part of Bet Alfa ...

Beth-Horon Bethoron ( he, בֵית־חוֹרֹ֔ן, lit=house of Horon; grc, Ὡρωνείν), also Beth-Horon, was the name of two adjacent ancient towns strategically located on the Gibeon-Aijalon road, guarding the "ascent of Beth-Horon". The towns are ...

Beth Shean Beit She'an ( he, בֵּית שְׁאָן '), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan ( ar, بيسان ), is a town in the Northern District of Israel. The town lies at the Beit She'an Valley about 120 m (394 feet) below sea level. Beit She'an is be ...

* Bethany (disambiguation){{!Bethany *

Bethel Bethel ( he, בֵּית אֵל, translit=Bēṯ 'Ēl, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; el, Βαιθήλ; la, Bethel) was an ancient Israelite sanct ...

/Beth-El * Bethesda * Bethlehem *

Bethsaida Bethsaida (; from gr, Βηθσαϊδά from Hebrew/Aramaic ''beth-tsaida'', lit. " house of hunting" from the Hebrew root ; ar, بيت صيدا), also known as Julias, is a place mentioned in the New Testament. Julias lay in an administrative d ...

Institutions and organizations

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 Bayit Lepletot ( he, בית לפליטות, literally, "Home for Refugees"), is an Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls in Jerusalem, Israel. Established in 1949 in the Mea Shearim neighborhood to accommodate young Holocaust refugees and orphans, th ...

, Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls *

Bayit Leumi HaBayit HaLeumi ( he, הבית הלאומי, ''The National Home'') is an organization based in Israel dedicated to stopping former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. The organization was behind civil disobedience protesting the d ...

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 The Betar Movement ( he, תנועת בית"ר), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during World War II. After t ...

/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress