WordWeb Online

1. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
   - fold, faithful
    
2. An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
   "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"
    
3. The act of congregating
   - congregating

Derived forms: congregations

See also: congregate, congregational

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, collection, gathering, social group

Part of: denomination

Encyclopedia: Congregation Congregation, mount of the