Key:religion

religion
Description
Defines the specific religion. 
Group: Religion
Used on these elements
Documented values: 14
Useful combination
Status: de facto

Covering an assortment of community facilities including churches and confessional schools.

How to map

Place of worship

Confessional cemetery

Confessional schools, kindergartens, social facilities

Confessional schools amenity=school, kindergartens amenity=kindergarten, social facilities amenity=social_facility get the tags religion=* + denomination=*.

Example
amenity=school
religion=christian
denomination=catholic
name=St. Paulus Grundschule

Religious communities

Religious communities can also get tags religion=* and denomination=*.

Mapping monasteries

See : Mapping_monasteries

Values for religion

(This is not an exhaustive list)

Value Wikipedia Possible rendering Possible rendering,
alternative version
Taginfo Note
buddhist  Buddhism Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place for Chinese Buddhism.
christian  Christianity
hindu  Hinduism
jain  Jainism
jewish  Judaism
muslim  Islam
pagan  Paganism
shinto  Shinto
sikh  Sikhism
taoist  Taoism Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place of worship .
zoroastrian  Zoroastrianism
Other values without specifications of denomination
animist  Animism
antoinist  Antoinism
bahai  Bahá'í
benzhu  Benzhuism
caodaism  Caodaism
chinese_folk  Chinese folk religion Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place.
confucian  Confucianism Use dedicated_to=* to state the deity mainly worshiped by the place especially if it's mainly worshipping anyone other than Confucius.
shamanic  Shamanism
scientologist  Scientology
self-realization_fellowship  Self-Realization Fellowship
spiritualist  Spiritualism
tenrikyo  Tenrikyo
unitarian_universalist  Unitarian Universalism
vietnamese_folk  Vietnamese folk
voodoo  Voodoo
yazidi  Yazidism
multifaith not dedicated to any specific religion
other/unspecified religion All commonly used values according to Taginfo. Please avoid using Capital Letters
none Some de-facto used religion-values for irreligious use are: none (numbering 1282 uses to date), no, all, humanist, atheist, null, laica
See e.g.  Atheism or  Secular Humanism
These values are used for non-religions. Other tagging might be considered. See talk-page for the tag religion, Talk:Key:religion#Explicit_absense_of_religion
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May be used to describe rare cases of religious objects, like a temple or a cemetery, shared by a limited number of multiple but specific religions.

For example, a particular religious cemetery that is both christian and jewish may be tagged as landuse=cemetery + religion=christian;jewish

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