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Religious symbols have been an integral part of human life since the first civilizations. However, its impact on the individual and social lifes of today's people has not been clearly revealed in scientific studies yet. In this respect, the aim of the study is to develop an attitude scale towards religious symbols, to make validity and reliability analysis and to make comparisons according to some personal variables. The draft scale developed was first applied to 410 students studying at various faculties of Kastamonu University. With the data obtained from this sample, the factor structure of the scale was determined by exploratory factor analysis, and reliability analysis were conducted. A scale with three sub-factors including 38 items in total was obtained. That scale was determined factor structure was applied to a second sample. The second sample's age range is between 18 and 65 years. The three-factor structure was confirmed as a result of the confirmatory factor analysis applied to the data obtained from this sample. The fit indices obtained are RMSEA = 0.081, NFI = 0.96, NNFI = 0.98, PNFI = 0.90, CFI = 0.98, IFI = 0.98, GFI = 0.87, AGFI = 0.89. Cronbach Alpha coefficient; 0.97 for the 1st dimension, 0.89 for the second dimension, and .84 for the third dimension. In addition, average variance extracted (AVE) value and composite reliability (CR) value were calculated for each factor. AVE values for factors are 0.62, 0.54 and 0.58, respectively, while CR value is 0.97, 0.89 and 0.87, respectively. These results showed that the validity and reliability of the measurement made by the scale in the second sample was high. In addition, attitudes towards religious symbols were compared according to demographic variables. According to the results, while attitudes towards religious symbols did not differ according to gender and education variables, significant differences were observed between the groups in terms of the level of recognition of religious symbols, subjective perception of religion, age and income variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]