Church
A building for Christian worship, whose plan - nave, orientation, a single focus at one end - is given by the liturgy rather than chosen by the designer.
Also called cathedral, parish church.
How it connects
In other taxonomies
- churches (buildings)Getty AAT, 300007466the same thing
- Faith worship buildingsUniclass, En_25_90_30theirs is wider
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Church
30 terms, House to Station
Narrower than Church
Record
Christian, explicitly. An architecture-projects platform's Religious & memorial covers every faith and memorials besides, so it is a spelling seen in the wild and not an equivalence.
- Also called
- cathedral · parish church
- Seen in the wild
- Religious & memorial
- Narrower
- Chapel
- Provenance
- evidencedSUBTYPE_RULES in an architecture-projects platform (src-01), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/typology/churchKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- evokesGothicincoming
- broaderChapelincoming
- belongs-to-axisTypologyoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetTypologyoutgoing
- evoked-byGothicoutgoing
- narrowerChapeloutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- descendant (derived)Chapeloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300007466 | churches (buildings) | the same thing |
| Uniclass | En_25_90_30 | Faith worship buildings | theirs is wider |