Church may refer to:

Religion

Church (building) A church, church building or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 and 256. From the 11th thro ...

, a building for Christian religious activities *

Church (congregation) A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location. Many are formally organized, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, are served by clergy or lay leaders, and, in nations wher ...

, a local congregation of a Christian denomination *

Church service A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. It often but not exclusively occurs on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing seventh-day Sa ...

, a formalized period of Christian communal worship *

Christian denomination A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worsh ...

, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice *

Christian Church In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus. "Christian Church" has also been used in academia as a synonym fo ...

, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity

Places

United Kingdom

* Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England

United States

Church, Iowa Church (also Church Village, Churchtown) is an unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big ...

, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Arts, entertainment, and media

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Church magazine ''Church magazine'' was a professional quarterly of pastoral theology and ministry published by the National Pastoral Life Center. It was written especially for pastors, parish leaders, and members of diocesan offices. Its founding editor was Mar ...

'', a pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center

Fictional entities

* Church (''Red vs. Blue''), a fictional character in the video web series ''Red vs. Blue'' * Church, a cat in Stephen King's novel '' Pet Sematary'' * Church, a meeting of SOA members in the FX television series ''

Sons of Anarchy ''Sons of Anarchy'' is an American action crime drama television series created by Kurt Sutter for FX. Originally aired from September 3, 2008 to December 9, 2014, ''Sons of Anarchy'' follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club ope ...

Films

* ''The Church'' (1989 film), an Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi * ''The Church'' (2018 film), an American horror film directed by Dom Franklin

Music

Groups

Chvrches Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriving f ...

, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland * The Church (band), an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980

Albums

* ''Church'' (album), a 2020 album by Swedish electronic dance music duo Galantis * ''The Church'' (Mr. Oizo album), a 2014 album by French electronic musician Mr. Oizo * ''The Church'' (The Church album), originally released in 1981 as ''Of Skins and Heart'' * ''Churches'' (album), a 2021 album by American singer-songwriter LP

Songs

* "Church" (Alison Wonderland song) * "Church" (Coldplay song) * "Church" (T-Pain song) * "Church", a song by Aly & AJ from '' Sanctuary'' * "Church", a song by Galactic from ''

Coolin' Off ''Coolin' Off'' is the first studio album by the jazz funk band Galactic. It was released in 1996 on Fog City Records. Track listing All tracks by Galactic #"Go Go" – 3:02 #"Welcome to New Orleans" – 0:14 #"Something's Wrong With This Pictu ...

'' * "Church", a song by Fall Out Boy from ''

Mania Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together wit ...

'' * "Church", a song by OutKast from '' Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' * "Church", a 2021 song from Tina Arena * "The Church", a song by Hawkwind from '' Church of Hawkwind''

Other uses

Church (programming language) Church refers to both a family of LISP-like ''probabilistic programming languages'' for specifying arbitrary probabilistic programs, as well as a set of algorithms for performing probabilistic inference in the generative models those programs def ...

, a LISP-like probabilistic programming language *

Church (surname) Church is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert T. Church (born 1947), Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy * Alfred John Church (1829–1912) an English classical scholar * Alonzo Church (1903–1995), logician, ...

, including a list of people *

Church Line The J Church is a hybrid light rail/streetcar line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The line runs between Embarcadero station and Balboa Park station through Noe Valley. Opened on August 11, 1917, it is the oldest and h ...

, San Francisco, California