Church
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Church is an English word for a Christian religious institution or building but it may refer to:
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Religion
- Place of worship, a specially designed structure or consecrated space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.
- Church (building) A Christian place of worship
- Church service, a formalized period of communal worship
- Church music written for performance in church
- Christian Church, refers to the whole Christian religious tradition through history.
- Any of several more specific Christian denominations
- Particular church, ecclesial communities within Catholic Christianity
- Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement
- Ecclesiology, the study of the church in Christian theology
- Any of several more specific Christian denominations
- A religious denomination
- State church, a religious body or creed officially endorsed by that nation's government
- Local church, the body made up of a congregation, its members and clergy
- Christian clergy, formal Christian religious leadership
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