communal worship
Congregation praising together
Communal worship is religious devotion practiced collectively rather than privately.
The phrase emphasizes the shared, public nature of spiritual observance—gathering in churches, mosques, synagogues, or temples to pray, sing, and participate in rituals together: The pandemic disrupted communal worship for months.
It contrasts with private prayer or individual meditation.
- prayerAddress to deity
- prayer circleGroup gathered for collective worship
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- Sunday serviceWeekly Christian worship gathering
religious gathering · hymn singing · chanting · synagogue · devotion · temple · fellowship · church · community · call and response · choir practice · psalmody · sacred ritual · processions · festival · sacred grove · mosque · faith
- Bantu spiritualityancestor spirits, ancestral spirits, ancestor veneration, spirit possession, spirit world
- JummahFriday, Friday sermon, noon prayer, midday prayer, obligatory
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- RamadanRamadan, iftar, fasting, holy month, breaking fast
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
- prayerintercession, prayer meeting, prayer circle, prayer group, prayer circles
communal worshipsilent retreat
Voiceless contemplative gathering
personal devotion · personal prayer · private prayer · private devotion
communal worshipsilent contemplation