white church

Painted wooden chapel

A white church is a Christian church building painted white, especially the simple wooden churches with steeples characteristic of rural New England and small-town America.

The image evokes traditional Protestant worship and is iconic in American landscape painting and photography: We drove past a white church on the village green.

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rural · clapboard · Sunday · bells · wedding chapel · spire · New England · New England charm · picket fence · wedding · country · country road · painted · pristine · baptism · graveyard · colonial · Protestant

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Opposites
racial/demographic congregation

white churchAfrican American church

Black community worship institution

architectural scale/grandeur

white churchcathedral

Bishop's principal church

basilica · Gothic cathedral · megachurch · abbey · monastery

building color/appearance

white churchstone church

Worship building of masonry

wooden church

Family

white, church, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitened, whitening, whiteness, whites

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Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G