# church (religious)

a building where people gather to worship

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [building](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-building.structure), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [worship](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-worship.emotional)

**Through:** people.social come together inside the building.structure for worship.emotional

**Novel properties:**
- communal worship
- shared sacred space
- collective spiritual practice

## Examples
- The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul hosted Christian worship services for nearly 900 years before conversion to a mosque. *(institutions)*
- Every Sunday, members of the First Baptist Church in Dallas gather in the red-brick building on Cadiz Street to worship. *(everyday life)*
- Notre-Dame de Paris attracted over 12 million visitors annually before the 2019 fire, many for worship. *(tourism)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-church.religious*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-church.religious.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*