{
  "id": "church.religious",
  "term": "church",
  "sense": "religious",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a building where people gather to worship",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "building.structure",
      "people.social",
      "come.arrive",
      "worship.emotional"
    ],
    "interaction": "people.social come together inside the building.structure for worship.emotional",
    "novel_properties": [
      "communal worship",
      "shared sacred space",
      "collective spiritual practice"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul hosted Christian worship services for nearly 900 years before conversion to a mosque.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every Sunday, members of the First Baptist Church in Dallas gather in the red-brick building on Cadiz Street to worship.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Notre-Dame de Paris attracted over 12 million visitors annually before the 2019 fire, many for worship.",
      "domain": "tourism"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "building.structure",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a church is a type of building"
    },
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "people gather for worship"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "church",
    "churches"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'come.arrive' and 'worship.emotional' to components, ensuring alignment with definition. Removed non-existent node 'worship.emobject'."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-church.religious"
}