religious ceremony
Formal worship event
A religious ceremony is a formal ritual performed according to the customs of a faith tradition.
Weddings, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, and funerals conducted by clergy are religious ceremonies.
The term distinguishes sacred rites from secular alternatives: They wanted a religious ceremony, not a courthouse wedding.
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- communionProfound shared closeness
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- confirmation classReligious preparation course
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
prayer · liturgy · mass · sacred ritual · ordination · wedding · wedding vows · Passover seder · holy orders · brit milah · invocation · penance · pilgrimage · last rites · funeral rites · consecration · requiem mass · hymn
- weddingswedding, wedding dress, wedding cake, bride, groom
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- VaisakhiAmritsar, Golden Temple, gurdwara, Punjab, Panj Pyare
- marriage annulmentannulment, nullity, invalid marriage, church annulment, church court
- eventsevent, events, party, parties, wedding
- Ancient entertainmentGreek tragedy, Greek comedy, amphitheater, chorus, mask
religious ceremonycivil ceremony
Nonreligious legal marriage
political rally · corporate event · social gathering · social function · civil service
religious ceremonyprivate worship
Solitary religious observance