As noted in the Quran, "the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger.
While many non-Separatists withdrew and established a worship of their own, they would not go so far as to assert that the parish churches were devoid of all marks of a true church.
The spread of Hindu culture throughout Southeast Asia established Ganesha worship in modified forms in Burma, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Ultimately Bhikshatana triumphs, establishing the worship of the Linga, his aniconic symbol.
But I don't read anywhere in Scripture that God requires other nations to establish his worship as a national religion.
The diversity of religious faiths and houses of worship established in the region reflects different waves of settlers.
Zephaniah attacked the religious syncretism that had become established, especially the worship of Baal and astral deities, and predicted the coming catastrophe of the "Day of the Lord".
By attending northern centres of worship established by Jeroboam I, they were all made to share in the sin of Jeroboam.
The synagogue was designed by the architects Peter and Francis Herter and constructed in 1887 by Eastern European Jews who wanted it to have the grandeur of an established house of worship, and so the Herters included not one but two rose windows.
This dubious place of worship, established in the 1820s largely as a burial speculation, contained a modest cellar in which the deceased were laid to rest in their thousands (ie. corpses were regularly surreptitiously cleared away).
The multiplication of chapels in the later Middle Ages stemmed from two innovations: the inclusion of the chantry, a special place of worship established by a donor for the singing of masses after his death, and the formation of numerous guilds or confraternities that built their own chapels in the town churches for corporate worship.
