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: ), 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