Monastery

Places of worship are locations in Old School RuneScape dedicated to the worship or veneration of a deity, religious figure, or other entity. They take a variety of forms, including churches, chapels, cathedrals, monasteries, temples, shrines, and altars.

A church is a building dedicated to worship by a congregation. They are usually found in or near large settlements. Most churches also contain an altar; players can pray at an altar to replenish their Prayer points. Some churches also have an organ in them, which can be played for entertainment.

A chapel is a place of religious worship that is generally associated with another building rather than serving as a primary place of worship for a settlement. Unlike churches, chapels generally do not have a resident priest.

Players can also build chapels in their player-owned houses.

A cathedral is a large or important church associated with a senior religious authority. The following locations are referred to as cathedrals.

Monasteries and abbeys are religious complexes that provide places for worship as well as living quarters for members of the religious community. They are generally larger in scale than a church or chapel.

A temple is a place of worship dedicated to a deity or other religious figure. Unlike churches, temples are generally not organised around congregational worship and may instead contain altars, sacred objects, tombs, or other structures associated with religious practice.

The following locations are referred to as temples in-game, or fit the description of a temple.

A shrine is a sacred place or structure dedicated to the veneration of a deity, religious figure, or other entity. Shrines are generally smaller or more specialised than temples and are often centred around a particular sacred object, such as a statue, monument, altar or other object of veneration.

Several locations are named shrines but have purposes that are unrelated to, or unclear as places of worship:

• Myreque shrine, which commemorates the Myreque.
• Strange shrine, encountered during the Maze random event.
• Strange shrines, found around The Stranglewood.
• Vending shrine, formerly part of Last Man Standing, where players could exchange survival tokens for equipment.
• Based on dialogue from the Gnome Child during the 20th Anniversary event, it is possible that followers of Brassica Prime find cabbage fields, and possibly the Falador farm in particular, to be places of worship in some sense. During the event, the Gnome Child tasks the adventurer to pick a cabbage specifically growing on the Falador farm. If asked why he would not accept a cabbage of a different source, the Gnome Child explained his desire to directly experience "the moment when the individual cabbage's connection to the Anima Mundi is irreversibly severed".^[13] This almost mystical description of a cabbage's harvest appears to be in line with the privileged place it holds within the Brassican system of belief. If interpreted to bear on cruciferous cosmology, it would mean that the cabbage partakes in the life force of Gielinor itself – the Anima Mundi – while also serving as a concrete symbol of the need to keep anima under control, through the sacrificial rite of plucking.^[14]