congregations
Church audience groups
Congregations is the plural of congregation, a group of people gathered together, especially for religious worship.
A church's regular attendees form its congregation: The minister addressed the congregation.
The word can also describe any assembled group: Congregations of tourists crowded the plaza.
In Catholicism, a congregation may be a religious community or a Vatican administrative division.
Those who revere religiously
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
- flockAnimals gathered together
- churchPlace of Christian worship
synagogue · mosque · temple · assembly · parish · diocese · clergy · sermon
Organized group gatherings
- groupsCollections of related things
- crowdsAssembled multitudes
- meetingsOrganized group assemblies
- flocksAnimal groups together
herds · clusters · throngs · masses · multitudes · swarms · collections · convocations
worshippers
Those who revere religiously
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
- flockAnimals gathered together
church · synagogue · mosque · temple · assembly · parish · diocese · clergy · sermon · pews
assemblies
Organized group gatherings
flocks · herds · clusters · throngs · masses · multitudes · swarms · collections · convocations · audiences
flocks
Animal groups together
- herdsGroups of grazing animals
- swarmsGathers in vast numbers
- coloniesTerritories under foreign control
schools · murmurations · rookeries · pods · packs · gaggles · bevies · migration · nesting · breeding grounds
- church lifechurch attendance, worship service, prayer group, youth group, church music
- religious organizationsBaptist churches, Methodist churches, Methodist Church, parishes, Lutheran Church
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Dutch ReformedSynod of Dort, Heidelberg Catechism, Calvinism, predestination, TULIP
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- churchnave, pew, pews, altar, altars
congregationsdispersions
Distributions throughout a substance
diaspora · isolates · hermits · loners · scatterings
congregationsmobs
Chaotic, lawless gatherings
non-believers · crowds · audiences · political rallies · nonbelievers
congregationsschisms
Formal organizational splits
splinter groups · factions · divisions · dispersals · dissolutions
- preached to the congregationDelivered religious message publicly
- religious congregationsOrganized bodies of worshippers
- church congregation
- congregational prayerGroup supplication in unison
- congregational singingCollective vocal worship