Bayt

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

## All pages with titles containing Bayt[edit]

* All pages with titles beginning with Bayt
* All pages with titles containing Bayt

## Jewish religious terms[edit]

* Temple Mount, Hebrew Har ha-Bayit, "Mount of the House"
* Beth Israel, "House of Israel"

## Islamic terms[edit]

* Ahl al-Bayt, the People of the House, referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims

## Synagogues[edit]

* Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

## Place-names and derivates[edit]

In alphabetical order including the articles.

### Bayit[edit]

* Bayit VeGan

### Bayt[edit]

* All pages with titles beginning with Bayt
* All pages with titles containing Bayt

A few outstanding ones:

* Bayt al-Allah (the Kaaba)
* Bayt al-Muqaddas (Jerusalem)

### Beit[edit]

* Beit Jala
* Beit Sahour
* Beit Shemesh
* Beit Hanina
* Beitin
* Betar (fortress)
* Battir

### Beth[edit]

* Beth Alpha
* Beth-Horon
* Beth Shean
* Bethany
* Bethel/Beth-El
* Bethesda
* Bethlehem
* Bethsaida

## Institutions and organizations[edit]

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

## See also[edit]

* Beit or bait, lit. 'house', metrical unit of poetry from Arabia through Turkey and Iran to India
* Bet (disambiguation)
* Bet (letter), derived from the hyeroglyph for house
* Beth (disambiguation)