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Just as Houses were sometimes donated to religious orders in Europe or part of them made over into a chapel as early castles were rebuilt into more comfortable mansions and palaces or chateau in Asia parts of palaces or buildings therein within a compound might become shrines or meditation halls or small temples.
Another European parallel might well be the basilica originally a building for holding court sessions which became the model for the first large Christian churches and cathedrals.
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