# Bayt

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

## Jewish religious terms

- [Temple Mount](/source/Temple_Mount), Hebrew *Har ha-Bayit*, "Mount of the House"
- [Beth Israel](/source/Beth_Israel_(disambiguation)), "House of Israel"

## Islamic terms

- *[Ahl al-Bayt](/source/Ahl_al-Bayt)*, the *People of the House*, referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims

## Synagogues

- [Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto](/source/Beth_Avraham_Yoseph_of_Toronto), an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

## Place-names and derivates

In alphabetical order including the articles.

### Bayit

- [Bayit VeGan](/source/Bayit_VeGan)

### Bayt

A few outstanding ones:

- [Bayt al-Allah](/source/Bayt_al-Allah) (the Kaaba)
- [Bayt al-Muqaddas](/source/Bayt_al-Muqaddas) (Jerusalem)

### Beit

- [Beit Jala](/source/Beit_Jala)
- [Beit Sahour](/source/Beit_Sahour)
- [Beit Shemesh](/source/Beit_Shemesh)
- [Beit Hanina](/source/Beit_Hanina)
- [Beitin](/source/Beitin)
- [Betar (fortress)](/source/Betar_(fortress)) - [Battir](/source/Battir)

### Beth

- [Beth Alpha](/source/Beth_Alpha)
- [Beth-Horon](/source/Beth-Horon)
- [Beth Shean](/source/Beth_Shean)
- [Bethany](/source/Bethany_(disambiguation))
- [Bethel](/source/Bethel)/Beth-El
- [Bethesda](/source/Bethesda_(disambiguation))
- [Bethlehem](/source/Bethlehem)
- [Bethsaida](/source/Bethsaida)

## 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](/source/Bayit_Lepletot), Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls
- [Bayit Leumi](/source/Bayit_Leumi) Israeli political organization
- [Bayit Yehudi](/source/Bayit_Yehudi) – 'The Jewish Home' political party
- [Bayt al-hikmah](/source/House_of_Wisdom) (House of Wisdom); Umayyad library in Damascus, and Abbasid library in Baghdad
- [Betar](/source/Betar)/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress

## Other

- [Bayt (poetry)](/source/Bayt_(poetry)), lit. 'house', a metrical unit of Asian poetry

## See also

- [Bet (disambiguation)](/source/Bet_(disambiguation)) - [Bet (letter)](/source/Bet_(letter)), derived from the hyeroglyph for house
- [Beth (disambiguation)](/source/Beth_(disambiguation))

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