What was the temple in Bantu language?

Once you wake up there is no going back. All bible words make sense all of a sudden. 

I was worried that the temple was my biggest stumbling block for the longest time. The temple was the glory of the Bantus and it is the building glorified in the bible throughout. It was the most expensive piece ever made on earth. However, I have never heard of a building called temple and I had no idea what the name of the temple would be in Bantu dialects. Also I could not imagine where it could be located.

This name is the simplest to count the least. Okay to crack the meaning let us look at a few verses to get some idea.

The first one is Solomon's prayer of dedication in 1 Kings 8: 22 - 53. You can read the prayer for your reference. Solomon is over and over saying if people come to the house and pray, then God should respond a certain way. Clearly this place is for prayer.

Isaiah 56: 7 says: these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

I am highlighting the house of prayer on purpose because the clue is there. The temple is called the house of prayer in Bantu dialects.

Jesus also refers to the temple as a house of prayer see Matthew 21: 13, Mark 11: 17 and Luke 19: 46.

What is a house in Southern Bantu dialects in Zulu/Xhosa it is indlu, in Sotho/SeTswana it is ntlo. Clearly House (indlu/ntlo) does not sound like Temple. What about prayer? Prayer in Zulu/Xhosa is umthandazo. Prayer in Sotho/SeTswana is Thapelo. 

Do you see the similarities - Thapelo vs Temple. Temple cannot be a building because thapelo is not. Thapelo is prayer not a building. But to call a temple the house of prayer is more appropriate . Without the word house, temple is not correct. 

In Acts 3: 1 we can see the purpose of the temple also. It says: Now peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer.

The temple had people coming and going there for prayer. The hour of prayer is indicative of the fact that there were specified times to go there.

Now let us do what we did to decode the other names how did temple came about. Well, I suspect that thapelo was written as TPL without the vowels. When the repackaging of the bible happened they simply tossed the word house out and TPL (thapelo) was left. But without the word house, TPL(thapelo) could not be a building at all. Temple has all the consonants except that it added M. Temple is probably TMPL in scrambled written form distorting TPL (thapelo). 

Where was the temple located? That is a good question - my wild guess is Lesotho or Botswana because it has a Sotho name.