Church
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- Shortcode
:church:- Unicode
U+26EA- HTML
⛪- CSS
\26EA- JavaScript
"\u{26EA}"- URL
%E2%9B%AA
What ⛪ means
A church with a cross on top. It means Christian worship, Sunday service and religious community.
Sunday plans, choir practice, weddings and baptisms use it with 🙏 or ✝️. It also marks Christmas and Easter services and church events like a bake sale.
Other faiths have their own buildings: 🕌 mosque, 🕍 synagogue and 🛕 Hindu temple.
Facts
Church ⛪ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place religious. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :church:. People also look for it with words like “Christian”, “bless”, “chapel”, or “cross”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.