Model discovered fate in place of worship (8)
I believe the answer is:
template
'model' is the definition.
(I know that template is a type of model)
'discovered fate in place of worship' is the wordplay.
'discovered' says to take the centre (dis-covered - outer letters removed).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'place of worship' becomes 'temple' (temple is a kind of place of worship).
The centre of 'fate' is 'at'.
'at' placed inside 'temple' is 'TEMPLATE'.
(Other definitions for template that I've seen before include "Design model" , "original design" , "Preset file or document format" , "Pattern for cutting out shapes" , "Pattern for document etc" .)