A religious goods store, also known as a religious bookstore, religious gifts store or religious supplies shop, is a store specializing in supplying materials used in the practice of a particular religious tradition, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion and Christianity among other religions.
These shops are abundant across the Greater Chinese region as well as Overseas Chinese communities around the world.
In Christendom, religious goods stores are often visited to purchase Christian art, books and devotional material for the home, as well as gifts such as a Bible, daily devotional or cross necklace for occasions such as Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Matrimony.
Contents
- Items for sale
- Christianity
- Chinese folk religion and Taoism
- Gallery
- See also
- References
Items for sale
Christianity
In Christendom, “religious goods stores”, also known as “Christian bookstores”, have Family Bibles, Christian art, daily devotional books, breviaries, catechisms, cross necklaces, Christian music albums, holy cards, home altars, prie-dieus, and prayer beads (such as the Dominican Rosary of Catholicism, the Wreath of Christof Lutheranism, the Anglican Rosary of Anglicanism, and the Chotki of Eastern Orthodoxy), among other sacramentals.
Chinese folk religion and Taoism
- Statues representing Chinese deities, also include Bodhisattva images like Guanyin or Di Zang Wang
- Tong Sheng (通勝), Chinese divination guide and almanac
- all form of Chinese incenses, kemenyan and candles
- incense papers, underworld bank notes and various forms of paper offerings
- tablets dedicated to Tian Gong (天公), Tu Di Gong (土地公), Zao Jun (灶君) and ancestral tablets
- unconsecrated religious devotional objects like Pa-Kua, Qian Kun Tai Ji Tu and Shang Hai Zheng
- incense urns or incense holders
- Chinese teapots, tea cups and Chinese tea leaves
- incense paper burners
- incense sticks
Gallery
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Malaysian Chinese and Indian Prayer Material Shop in Penang’s Market Street (Little India district).
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Statues of Maitreya on sale in a Prayer Material Shop in Penang.
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The exterior of a Family Christian religious goods store in the United States