place of worship vs building

place of worship and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
place of worship	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of place of worship; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than place of worship:

place of worship: any building where congregations gather for prayer
building: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of place of worship include edifice.

place of worship (noun)	building (noun)
any building where congregations gather for prayer	the act of constructing something
	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building