prayer leader
Leads congregational devotion
A prayer leader is someone who guides a group through prayer, reciting or chanting while others follow or respond.
The role exists across religions—an imam leading Friday prayers, a cantor in Jewish services, or a layperson conducting grace at a family gathering.
The prayer leader called the congregation to kneel.
- imamMuslim religious guide
- cantorLiturgical music leader
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- chaplainInstitutional clergy member
- holy manPious religious devotee
priest · muezzin · intercession · congregation · benediction · shaman · laying on hands · kohen · spiritual counseling · rabbi · officiant · invocation · reverence · supplication · liturgy · mosque · daily prayers · robes
- ImamFriday sermon, religious guidance, Eid prayers, Ramadan prayers, salat
- Christian prayerOur Father, amen, intercession, supplication, supplications
- church volunteersusher, greeter, lector, reader, altar server
- prayerintercession, supplication, novenas, novena, intercessor
- mosque-goersimam, muezzin, hafiz, regular, volunteer
- Islamic rolesimam, muezzin, mufti, qadi, sheikh
liturgical role
prayer leadercongregant
Member of a worship assembly
follower · listener · parishioner · layperson · worshipper