Editing Hall (section)

==Other uses==
===Collegiate halls===

[[File:Haverfordfounders.jpg|thumb|Founders Hall at [[Haverford College]] in Pennsylvania]]
Many institutions and buildings at colleges and [[university|universities]] are formally titled "_______ Hall", typically being named after the person who [[Financial endowment|endowed]] it, for example, [[King's Hall, Cambridge]]. Others, such as [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]], commemorate respected people. Between these in age, [[Nassau Hall]] at [[Princeton University]] began as the single building of the then [[college]]. In medieval origin, these were the halls in which the members of the university lived together during term time. In many cases, some aspect of this community remains.

Some of these institutions are titled "Hall" instead of "College" because at the time of their foundation they were not recognised as colleges (in some cases because their foundation predated the existence of colleges) and did not have the appropriate [[Royal Charter]]. Examples at the [[University of Oxford]] are:

* [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]]
* Hart Hall (now [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]])
* [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Lady Margaret Hall]]
* The (currently six) [[Permanent private hall]]s.

In colleges of the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], the term "Hall" is also used for the dining hall for students, with [[High Table]] at one end for fellows. Typically, at "[[Formal Hall]]", [[academic regalia|gowns]] are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for "informal Hall" they are not. The medieval collegiate dining hall, with a dais for the high table at the upper end and a screen passage at the lower end, is a modified or assimilated form of the [[Great hall]].

===Meeting hall===
[[File:Socialisthall.jpg|thumb|[[Socialist Hall]], a former meeting hall in [[Butte, Montana]]]]
A hall is also a building consisting largely of a principal room, that is rented out for meetings and social affairs.  It may be privately or government-owned, such as a function hall owned by one company used for weddings and cotillions (organized and run by the same company on a contractual basis) or a community hall available for rent to anyone, such as a British [[village hall]].

===Religious halls===
In religious architecture, as in [[Islamic architecture]], the prayer hall is a large room dedicated to the practice of worship.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S7iJpekO1G8C&dq=religious+architecture+prayer+hall&pg=PA477| title = Stanford Anderson and Colin St. John Wilson, ''The Oxford companion to architecture, Volume 1'', Oxford University Press, 2009, page 477| date = 23 July 2009| publisher = OUP Oxford| isbn = 978-0-19-860568-3}}</ref> (example: the prayer hall of the [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]] in [[Tunisia]]). A [[hall church]] is a church with a nave and side aisles of approximately equal height.<ref>Sturgis, Russell. Sturgis' illustrated dictionary of architecture and building: an unabridged reprint of the 1901-2 edition. VOl. II. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1989. 346-347</ref> Many churches have an associated [[church hall]] used for meetings and other events.

===Public buildings===
Following a line of similar development, in [[office]] buildings and larger buildings ([[theatre]]s, [[movie theater|cinemas]] etc.), the entrance hall is generally known as the [[foyer]] (the French for fireplace). The [[atrium (architecture)|atrium]], a name sometimes used in public buildings for the entrance hall, was the central courtyard of a Roman house.