Sacred prostitution

Quality:

Sacred prostitution - sexual rite performed in the context of religious worship. Article “Sacred prostitution” in English Wikipedia has 88.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 129 references and 29 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Sacred prostitution” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sacred prostitution”, its content was written by 405 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 858 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 456 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1472 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #255 in July 2002
• Global: #490 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2082 in August 2014
• Global: #7397 in August 2014

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sacred prostitution		88.2879
2	Catalan (ca) Prostitució sagrada		74.7179
3	Basque (eu) Prostituzio sakratu		72.8205
4	Spanish (es) Prostitución sagrada		62.5454
5	Italian (it) Prostituzione sacra		50.7851
6	Norwegian (no) Tempelprostitusjon		46.5023
7	Greek (el) Ιερή πορνεία		42.299
8	French (fr) Prostitution sacrée		37.0009
9	Arabic (ar) دعارة مقدسة		28.7605
10	Ukrainian (uk) Культова проституція		28.6269

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sacred prostitution		4 676 088
2	Japanese (ja) 神聖娼婦		626 705
3	Russian (ru) Культовая проституция		520 328
4	German (de) Tempelprostitution		336 823
5	Italian (it) Prostituzione sacra		291 088
6	Chinese (zh) 廟妓		284 624
7	Spanish (es) Prostitución sagrada		195 232
8	Polish (pl) Prostytucja sakralna		183 098
9	French (fr) Prostitution sacrée		124 303
10	Dutch (nl) Tempelprostitutie		105 713

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sacred prostitution		18 541
2	Russian (ru) Культовая проституция		2 827
3	Japanese (ja) 神聖娼婦		2 266
4	Chinese (zh) 廟妓		1 613
5	Spanish (es) Prostitución sagrada		1 557
6	Italian (it) Prostituzione sacra		1 144
7	German (de) Tempelprostitution		1 120
8	French (fr) Prostitution sacrée		653
9	Polish (pl) Prostytucja sakralna		576
10	Greek (el) Ιερή πορνεία		393

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sacred prostitution		405
2	German (de) Tempelprostitution		88
3	Italian (it) Prostituzione sacra		58
4	Dutch (nl) Tempelprostitutie		52
5	French (fr) Prostitution sacrée		29
6	Norwegian (no) Tempelprostitusjon		28
7	Polish (pl) Prostytucja sakralna		26
8	Russian (ru) Культовая проституция		24
9	Chinese (zh) 廟妓		22
10	Japanese (ja) 神聖娼婦		21

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sacred prostitution		2
2	Arabic (ar) دعارة مقدسة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Prostitució sagrada		0
4	Czech (cs) Chrámová prostituce		0
5	Danish (da) Tempelprostitution		0
6	German (de) Tempelprostitution		0
7	Greek (el) Ιερή πορνεία		0
8	Spanish (es) Prostitución sagrada		0
9	Basque (eu) Prostituzio sakratu		0
10	Persian (fa) فحشای مذهبی		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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