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Pater Noster, or the Lord's Prayer, is a prayer in Christianity.

Pater Noster or Paternoster may also refer to:

Places

• Paternoster, Western Cape, a fishing village in South Africa
• Paternosters, uninhabitable rocks in the Bailiwick of Jersey
• Paternoster (Estonian: Viirelaid), historical name of an island in the Baltic Sea

Buildings

• Pater Noster Lighthouse, a Swedish lighthouse located in Skagerrak
• Church of the Pater Noster, a church on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

Other uses

• Pater Noster (film), a 1993 Finnish drama film directed by Veikko Aaltonen
• Paternoster lift, a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building
• Paternoster beads, used in Christianity to recite the psalms
• Paternoster (surname), a surname
• Paternoster lake, one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system
• Paternoster Press, a British Christian publishing house
• Paternoster (sculpture), a 1975 bronze sculpture by Elisabeth Frink

See also

• Paternoster Row, once the centre of the London publishing trade, destroyed during the Blitz, replaced by:
  • Paternoster Square, an urban development in London
• Paternoster Gang, a trio of recurring fictitious characters in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, whose headquarters was on Paternoster Row
• Paternoster cross, repositioning the letters of the Sator Square