Place of Worship Emoji
A figure bowing in prayer, a symbol for worship of any faith.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Place of Worship emoji mean?
A figure bowing in prayer, a symbol for worship of any faith.
Deliberately non-specific. It exists so a post can mention faith without naming one.
How to use 🛐 naturally
Interfaith messages, prayer requests and general religious posts.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🛐
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Place of Worship was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2014 as a generic worship symbol, drawn as a kneeling figure before an arch. Unicode encoded it precisely so no one religion's building had to stand for all of them.
- Today
How its use evolved
Interfaith messages, prayer requests and general religious posts.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🛐 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Thoughts and prayers with everyone there 🛐
Service is open to all 🛐
Quiet room on the second floor 🛐
When to use it
Using 🛐 clearly
Interfaith messages, prayer requests and general religious posts. It lands as worship emoji or prayer emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the place of worship emoji
What does 🛐 mean in a text message?
A figure bowing in prayer, a symbol for worship of any faith. Deliberately non-specific. It exists so a post can mention faith without naming one.
Is 🛐 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are worship emoji, prayer emoji, 🛐 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🛐 look different on another device?
U+1F6D0 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the place of worship emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🛐 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the place of worship emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🛐 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🛐 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F6D0 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🛐 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🛐 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F6D0 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6D0} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%9B%90 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F6D0
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- worship emojiprayer emoji🛐 meaning
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