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, Christianity and Islam among other religions.[1][2]
These shops are abundant across the Greater Chinese region as well as Overseas Chinese communities around the world.[3]
In Iran, religious goods stores are usually visited to buy the Quran, Al Mafatih-Al Jinan, goods like the tasbīḥ, and many other things. One of the services related to this is to add a page to Mafatih al-Jinan book for a deceased loved one.
In Buddhist bookshops, a variety of Buddhist books and chanting CDs are usually available for sales. There is also wide range of other products which includes Buddha statues, Buddhist pendants, incense, candles, chanting beads, instruments, Buddhist monastics' robes, meditation cushions and other Buddhist accessories.[7]
↑Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria 2010 Donald Olson – 2010 "Buddha Supply Centre Want money to burn? At Chinese funerals, people burn joss—paper replicas of earthly belongings—to help make the afterlife for the deceased more comfortable. This shop has more than 500 combustible products to "
↑Bowman, Peg (16 April 2013). At Home with the Sacraments: Baptism. Twenty-Third Publications. p.30. ISBN978-1-58595-903-7.
121963 Census of Business. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.10. Religious goods stores (Part of SIC 5999)—Establishments primarily selling primarily selling religious goods, such as Bibles, prayer books, hymnals, church and Sunday school supplies, communion supplies, rosaries, and religious statues, medals, jewelry, and pictures.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
12Penny, Laura (13 March 2009). Your Call Is Important To Us. McClelland & Stewart. p.18. ISBN978-1-55199-288-4.
