Church

Church may refer to:

Religion

• Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
• Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
• Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
• Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice
• Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity

Places

United Kingdom

• Church, a former electoral ward of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council that existed from 1964 to 2002
• 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, an unincorporated community
• Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota
• Church, Michigan, ghost town

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Church magazine, 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

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, 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" (T-Pain song)
• "Church", a song from Everyday Life (Coldplay album)
• "Church", a song by Aly & AJ from Sanctuary
• "Church", a song by Galactic from Coolin' Off
• "Church", a song by Fall Out Boy from Mania
• "Church", a song by Jelly Roll from Whitsitt Chapel
• "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), a LISP-like probabilistic programming language
• Church (surname), including a list of people
• Church Line, San Francisco, California
• The Church Studios, a recording studio in Crouch End, North London, England
• The Church Studio, a recording studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

See also

• Church station (disambiguation)
• Church's (disambiguation)
• Churching (disambiguation)
• Synagogue
• Mosque
• Temple