Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole community or for a specialized group within the greater community. Community centres can be religious in nature, such as Christian, Islamic, or Jewish community centres, or can be secular, such as youth clubs. Uses The community centres are usually used for: Celebrations, Public meetings of the citizens on various issues, Organising meetings(where politicians or other official leaders come to meet the citizens and ask for their opinions, support or votes ("election campaigning" in democracies, other kinds of requests in non-democracies), Volunteer activities, Organising parties, weddings, Organising local non-government activities, Passes on and retells local history,etc. Organization and ownership Around the world (and sometimes within single countries) there appear to be four common ways in which the operation of the kind of community centre are owned and organised. In the following description, "Government" may refer to the ordinary secular government or to a dominant religious organisation such as the Roman Catholic Church; and it may refer to the central, national, or international branch of a government/church or to the local subdivision of it. Community owned: The centre is directly owned and run by the local community through an organization separate from the official (local) governmental institutions of the area, but with the full knowledge and sometimes even funding from (local) government institutions. Government owned: The centre is a public (local) government facility, though it is mostly used for non-government community activities and may even have some kind of local leadership elected from its community. Kominkan (in Japan) Sponsored: A rich citizen or commercial corporation owns the centre and donates its use to the community for reasons of charity or public relations. Commercial: The community centre is a purely commercial entity which aims to profit from renting its facilities to various community groups on terms suitable for such use. Types of community centres The community centres typically have its own origin and history.There are some examples: Built as such - Buildings have been erected specifically to function as community centers(in 1880), </ref> perhaps even earlier. A disused public building - When an official government building (such as a school or city hall) is no longer needed for its original purpose, it is sometimes offered to the