Messe is a German word meaning

trade fair A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific Industry (economics), industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest Product (business), products and se ...

; a German and a French word meaning

mass (liturgy) Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term ''Mass'' is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in m ...

and

mass (music) The Mass () is a form of sacred musical composition that sets the invariable portions of the Christian Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism), known as the Mass. Most Masses are ...

Places

Germany

Messe Erfurt The Messe Erfurt is a convention center including an indoor arena, in Erfurt, Germany. Its seating capacity is roughly 12,000 people. The convention center has been Green Globe certified since 2014. The arena has hosted concerts by many famous ...

, convention centre in Erfurt, Germany *

Messe Frankfurt Messe Frankfurt () is one of the world's largest trade fair, congress and event organizer with its own exhibition grounds. The organization has 2,500 employees at some 30 locations, generating annual sales of around €661 million. Its services ...

, convention centre operator in Frankfurt am Main, Germany *

Messe München Messe München GmbH is the operator of the Neue Messe München exhibition center, the ICM Internationales Congress Center München and the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München. The exhibition space of the 16 halls together is 180,000 m2 and ...

, convention centre operator in Munich, Germany *

Hamburg Messe Hamburg Messe is a business unit of Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH. The area of Hamburg Messe hosts about 40 trade fairs annually, with over 15000 exhibitors and 700000 visitors. About 15 events are operated by Hamburg Messe itself. Exhibitio ...

, convention centre operator in Hamburg, Germany * Messe Wien, convention centre in Vienna, Austria ** Messe-Prater station, subway station *

Messezentrum Nuremberg Messezentrum Nuremberg is a convention center located in Nuremberg, Germany, which opened in 1974. It is owned and operated by the NürnbergMesse company. The site features 170,000 m2 of display area that extends over 15 exhibition halls, includi ...

, Nuremberg, Germany ** Messe (Nuremberg U-Bahn), subway station * Hannover Messe/Laatzen station, serving Hannover Messe

Japan

Makuhari Messe is a convention center in Chiba (city), Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, located just outside of Tokyo. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, it is accessible by Transportation in Greater Tokyo#Railway and subway, Tokyo's commuter rail system. ''Makuha ...

, a convention centre in Chiba City, Chiba *

Toki Messe is a multi-purpose international convention center in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The center was opened on May 1, 2003, and contains a hotel, restaurants, an art museum, conference rooms, and the offices of several international organiz ...

, a convention centre in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture *

Osaka Auto Messe The Osaka Auto Messe (''大阪オートメッセ'') is an annual auto show that is held at Intex Osaka in Osaka, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainlan ...

, an annual auto show that is held at Intex Osaka

Other places

Messé Messé is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. See also *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 252 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. The communes cooperate in the fol ...

, France *

Messe (Greece) Messa or Messe () was one of the nine cities of ancient Laconia enumerated in the Catalogue of Ships, in the ''Iliad'' by Homer, who gives it the epithet of πολυτρήρων, 'abounding in pigeons'. Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squint ...

, a town of ancient Greece

Music

Mass (music) The Mass () is a form of sacred musical composition that sets the invariable portions of the Christian Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism), known as the Mass. Most Masses are ...

* '' Messe I.X–VI.X'', a 2013 album by Norwegian band Ulver *

Musikmesse Musikmesse Frankfurt was an international trade show and music festival for the music products industry that took place annually in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 1980 until 2019. At its peak, the fair was one of the largest international trade ...

, a music trade fair in Germany

People with the surname

Giovanni Messe Giovanni Messe (10 December 1883 – 18 December 1968) was an Italian field marshal and politician. In the Second World War, he was captured in Tunisia but made chief of staff of the Italian Co-belligerent Army after the armistice of September ...

(1883–1968), Italian politician and Field Marshal