community prayer
Shared spiritual practice
Community prayer is prayer performed collectively by a group rather than individually.
Religious traditions vary in how they structure it—some follow set liturgies, others pray spontaneously, and some designate one person to pray aloud while others assent silently.
The town hall opened with a community prayer.
The practice can strengthen group bonds but raises church-state concerns in public settings.
- worship servicesCommunal religious ceremonies
- circleCurved closed shape
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
holding hands · ecumenism · liturgy · invocation · kneeling · unity · Christianity · devotion · Sunday service · house of worship · solidarity · common ground · shared faith · voices · fellowship · benediction · moment of silence · chapel
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
- Jewish prayersKaddish, shacharit, morning prayers, evening prayers, afternoon prayers
- gatheringsgathering, gatherings, parties, party, reunion
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- EidEid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr, Eid prayers, Eid Mubarak, Eid greetings
- spiritual retreatssilent retreat, retreat centers, retreat house, retreat center, weekend retreat