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1. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
   - fold, faithful
    
2. An assemblage of people, 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

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

Part of: denomination

Encyclopedia: Congregation Congregation, mount of the