churches
Steepled religious buildings
Churches are buildings used for Christian worship, and by extension, the congregations that gather in them or the institutions they represent.
The church voted to hire a new pastor.
A church can also mean a particular Christian denomination: the Catholic Church, the Baptist church.
To be churched is to be brought into formal membership.
Church and state refers to the relationship between religious and governmental authority.
Quantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- sermonClergy's worship address
- prayerAddress to deity
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
psalms · communion · baptism · confession · vespers · matins · benediction · congregation
Protected sacred space
- altarSacred ritual table
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
divinity · reverence · devotion · reliquary · chalice · paten · censer · tabernacle
Local church community
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- ministryClergy's work or state department
clergy · pastor · priest · vicar · rector · deacon · laity · flock
Bishop's principal church
- basilicaColonnaded church with apse
- chapelSmall worship room
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- minsterImportant church, historically monastic
nave · apse · transept · chancel · narthex · crypt · cloister · buttress
Notable point of reference
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
antiquity · historic · legacy · tradition · patrimony · pilgrimage · ruins · medieval
mass
Quantity of matter
hymns · psalms · communion · baptism · confession · vespers · matins · benediction · congregation · pews
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
- altarSacred ritual table
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
sanctity · divinity · reverence · devotion · reliquary · chalice · paten · censer · tabernacle · vestments
parish
Local church community
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
ministry · clergy · pastor · priest · vicar · rector · deacon · laity · flock · faithful
cathedral
Bishop's principal church
minster · nave · apse · transept · chancel · narthex · crypt · cloister · buttress · Romanesque
landmark
Notable point of reference
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
conservation · antiquity · historic · legacy · tradition · patrimony · pilgrimage · ruins · medieval · colonial
- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- travel postcardsscenic views, landmarks, beaches, mountains, cityscapes
- urban placescommercial buildings, office buildings, shopping centers, stores, restaurants
- sacred architecturecathedral, cathedrals, temple, mosque, synagogue
- ethnic neighborhoodsethnic restaurants, food markets, cultural centers, festivals, temples
- limestone buildings.cathedrals, castles, palaces, monuments, pyramids
churchesmosques
Muslim houses of worship
temples · synagogues · shrines · pagodas · stupas
churchesbars
Rods, taverns, or measures
nightclubs · brothels · strip clubs · casinos · taverns
- church bellsBronze instruments in steeples
- the churchChristian religious institution
- church activitiesOrganized congregational programs
- church serviceOrganized Christian worship gathering
- United Methodist ChurchProtestant denomination from Wesley's movement
- church hierarchyRanked religious leadership structure
church, churchyard, churchgoing, churchman, churchly, churchgoer, churched, churchgoers, churchmen