Church may refer to:
Religion
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward
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Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward
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Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward
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Church, Lancashire, England
United States
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