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Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls #3123

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls #3123

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments

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Reporter: fluteflute
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.22pm, Thursday, 15th July 2010]

The building where Jehovah's Witnesses meet is always called a Kingdom Hall. These buildings are tagged amenity=place_of_worship, religion=christian, denomination=jehovahs_witness.

This currently produces a rendering of a cross. This is not suitable because Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that Jesus died on a cross. Furthermore the rendering creates confusion/frustration because it suggests a 'normal' church. I know some people have removed the religion/denomination tags to prevent the cross rendering. This rendering can be seen as offensive, both to more traditional Christian denominations and to Jehovah's Witnesses themselves.

Ideally a unique rendering would be found, but in the meantime I suggest they are rendered as the default point of worship square.

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Author: openstreetmap[at]firefishy.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.15pm, Friday, 16th July 2010]

Can you suggest a better icon? With a suitable license.

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Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.28pm, Wednesday, 16th March 2011]

Duplicate of #3333.

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