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church building
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building for Christian worship
A church building is a structure designed and used primarily for Christian worship and religious gatherings. Church buildings matter because they provide a dedicated physical space where Christian communities can come together for services, prayer, and spiritual practice.
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Within Vinony's link graph, church building is referenced by 13,658 other articles, and connects out to Mary, house church and Christianity.
It sits within the topics Building types, Christian architecture and Christian terminology.
Its subject is documented across 160 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- pew
- Religion
- Christianity
- Image
- Cathedral of Saint Cecilia of Albi - 7095 - Altar and choir.jpg
- Significant event
- church consecration
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- equivalent class
- schema.org/Church
- facet of
- Christian architecture
- Commons category
- Churches
- Commons gallery
- Church
- Unicode character
- ⛪
- topic's main category
- Category:Church buildings
- OpenStreetMap tag
- building=church
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox church
- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/103018041-n
- different from
- church congregation
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- used by
- church congregation
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 654321
- partially coincident with
- temple
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