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megachurch

house of worship with an average weekend attendance of 2000 or more people
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megachurch

Summary

megachurch ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,931 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • megachurch's religion is recorded as Protestantism[2].
  • megachurch's religion is recorded as Pentecostalism[3].
  • megachurch is a type of church building[4].
  • megachurch is a type of church congregation[5].
  • megachurch's Commons category is recorded as Megachurches[6].
  • megachurch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Megachurches[7].
  • megachurch's described at URL is recorded as http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html[8].
  • megachurch's has list is recorded as list of megachurches in the United States[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include church building[4] and church congregation[5].

Why It Matters

megachurch ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,931 views/month).[1] megachurch has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] megachurch is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 26d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → big-churches
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: big-churches, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910183|big churches (#289910183)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  2. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → church building, church congregation
    Wikidata description → house of worship with an average weekend attendance of 2000 or more people
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007284758705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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