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
Seen in the wild
Religious & memorial
Broader
None
Narrower
Chapel
Usage
Not measured
Provenance
evidencedarchitizer SUBTYPE_RULES, read 21 Aug 2026
Status
active
Material Semantics id
typology.church
Note
Christian, explicitly. Architizer's `Religious & memorial` covers every faith and memorials besides, so it is a `seenAs` and not an equivalence.

Crosswalks

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