Church

Church is a Christian religious institution, place of worship, or group of worshipers.

Church may refer to:

Religion

• A Christian religious denomination
• Church (building), a Christian place of worship
• Church (sociology of religion), religious denominations that are all-embracing of religious expression within a society
• Christian Church, the whole Christian religious tradition through history
  • Broad church, (from Anglicanism) an organization encompassing a broad range of opinion on doctrine and practice
  • Christian denomination, an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and doctrine within Christianity
  • Local church, the body made up of a church congregation, its members and clergy
  • Local churches (affiliation), a denomination whose places of worship are named "The Church in" followed by the name of a city
  • Particular Church, an ecclesial community within Catholic Christianity
  • Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement
• Church music, music written for performance in church
• Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
• State church, a Christian religious body or creed officially endorsed by a nation's government
• The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster A religion not related to Christianity

People

• Church (surname), people with the surname Church
• Adam Gilchrist (born 1971), Australian cricketer, nicknamed Gilly or Church

Places

• Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward
• Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward
• Church, Lancashire, England
• Church, Iowa, United States, an unincorporated community

Popular music

• "Church" (song), by T-Pain
• The Church (band), an Australian alternative rock band formed in Canberra in 1980
  • The Church, an alternate name for their debut album, Of Skins and Heart
• Chvrches, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland
• "Church", a song by Galactic on the album Coolin' Off
• "Church", a song by OutKast on the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• "The Church", a song by Hawkwind on the album Church of Hawkwind

Other uses

• Church (programming language), a LISP-like probabilistic programming language
• Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character in the video web series Red vs. Blue
• The Church (film), a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi
• Church Committee, 1975 United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
• Church, a cat in the novel Pet Sematary