megachurch

noun

mega·​church ˈme-gə-ˌchərch 

plural megachurches

: a church having an extremely large congregation

The megachurch, one of the largest in the region with roughly 5,000 attendees at its Sunday morning Post Falls worship service, is also adding a 25,000-square-foot children's ministry building, which will include a large indoor play structure …

—Nicholas Deshais

In little more than a decade, his ministry has grown from a living-room Bible study to a megachurch that draws about 7,600 visitors to seven campuses around Seattle each Sunday …

—Molly Worthen

Examples of megachurch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After South Carolina, Jackson will be returned to Chicago for a large celebration of life gathering at a megachurch and the final homegoing services at the headquarters of Rainbow PUSH. —ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026

The two weeks of events will wrap up next week with a large celebration of life gathering at a Chicago megachurch and finally, home-going services at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. —Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026

The leader of a conservative Fort Worth megachurch visited Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in jail and says God has forgiven the disgraced pastor. —Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026

Greene, meanwhile, had recently been baptized at an Atlanta-area megachurch. —Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026

Word History

Etymology

mega- + church entry 1

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for megachurch

• interchurch
• birch
• lurch
• perch
• search
• recherche
• research