Definition of "church building" [church building]

• A place for public (especially Christian) worship (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The church building is 80 by 120 feet, with sub-basement for domestic purposes, a basement story above grade containing Lecture, Sunday School, Library and Class-rooms."
• "A couple of blocks away, Church of the Transfiguration, the oldest Catholic church building in New York and the largest Chinese Catholic church in America today, has run its own Chinese school for more than fifty years."
• "There was some special interest in the service to-day, growing out of the fact that the church building which had been occupied under military authority by missionaries who had come down from the North in the wake of the Union Army, was now turned over to the original congregation; and Dr. Caulfield, the former pastor, would preach his first sermon in it since the surrender."