church building

building for Christian worship
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Summary

church building is a type of building[1]. It draws 5,211 Wikipedia views per month (type of building category, ranking #13 of 101).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Christianity[3]
  • Subclass of: religious building[4], temple[5], venue[6]
  • Commons category: Churches[7]
  • SRGB color hex triplet: 654321[8]
  • Unicode character: ⛪[9]
  • Has part(s): church interior (building)[10], church tower[11], churchyard[12], altar[13], pew[14]
  • Significant event: church consecration[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Church buildings[16]
  • Commons gallery: Church[17]
  • Facet of: Christian architecture[18]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: building=church[19]
  • Depicted by: scale model of church[20]
  • Described by source: Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[21], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[22], Kartographer icon[23], Dresdner Hefte[24]
  • Partially coincident with: temple[25]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox church[26]
  • Used by: church congregation[27]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Church[28]
  • Different from: Kirche[29], Church[30], Iglesia[31], mosque[32], cathedral[33], house of prayer[34], Christian Church[35], church congregation[36]
  • Properties for this type: P17[37], P131[38], P708[39], P856[40], P149[41], P571[42], P527[43], P625[44], P186[45], P18[46], P5775[47], P6375[48], P138[49], P1435[50]

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Influence

Things named for church building include Church of Your Heart[51], a musical work/composition[52]; Pilgrim Fathers Church[53], in Netherlands[54], founded in 1417[55]; Kilcooly Abbey[56], an abbey[57], in Ireland[58], founded in 1182[59], headquartered in County Tipperary[60]; and Parekklisia[61], a community of Cyprus Republic[62], in Cyprus[63].

Why It Matters

church building has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[64] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[65]

Entities named for it include Church of Your Heart[51], a musical work/composition[52]; Pilgrim Fathers Church[53], in Netherlands[54], founded in 1417[55]; Kilcooly Abbey[56], an abbey[57], in Ireland[58], founded in 1182[59], headquartered in County Tipperary[60]; and Parekklisia[61], a community of Cyprus Republic[62], in Cyprus[63].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  19. [21] ↑ . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  9. [63] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [64] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [65] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Kolja21 · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Gnd id: 4073436-5"
  2. 20d ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for the interior of the item → Category:Views from churches
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for the interior of the item: Category:Views from churches, Setting P7561 value"
  3. 22d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gemet id → 1410
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gemet id: 1410, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/152599137|church (#152599137)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5959|GEMET ID]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 24d ago · Gpkp · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'ast', 'av', 'awa',
    Sitelink count → 177
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Image: Basilica di San Pietro - Esterrno.jpg"
  5. 4w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → i/iglesia
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: i/iglesia, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275041|batch #275041]]"
  6. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → churches
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: churches, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923689|churches (#289923689)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  7. 9w ago · JanezPavelZebovec · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Dada
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14692: Q6034"
  8. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Church
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Church, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  9. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295889
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q295889, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  10. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 9ym1r
    P14483 → i/iglesia
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  11. 15w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → i/iglesia
    Connects with → churchyard, church cemetery
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: i/iglesia, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260063|batch #260063]]"
  12. 15w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connects with → churchyard, church cemetery
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Connects with: churchyard"
  13. 17w ago · Cruzate1492 · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Adjacent structure or building → church cemetery
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Adjacent structure or building: church cemetery"
  14. 18w ago · AndreasKasper · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Museum-digital tag id → 77200
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Museum-digital tag id: 9474"
  15. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001418-kostely
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001418-kostely, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  16. 21w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 88
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id: 88, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P4980]]"
  17. 21w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 88
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id: T96-88, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/42483163|édifice religieux chrétien ("
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