Churches Near You
Every church, chapel, and shrine around you, with walking distance and the next scheduled Mass.
Churches.app
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From the world's holy places
Every church has a story.
This is where they're told.
What is the Churches App?
A home for every holy church on Earth.
We are building a platform for the world's churches, a home for the global Christian community to connect and discover them. A living record, kept up to date by the visitors and pilgrims who carry the app in their pocket.
Explore every treasure
Every painting, statue, altar, crypt, and reliquary, photographed, located, and explained. Cherish the churches you have visited and seek the next churches you will explore, at home and abroad.
Bring people to Mass
Mass times for churches worldwide, in your language, confirmed by the people who attend. Daily readings for the liturgy every day of the year.
Equip the Church
Tools for every diocese and parish to publish announcements, keep directories current, and reach the faithful where they are.
97,156
churches
220 countries
& territories
43,913 cities
2,715 dioceses
and growing
For the Faithful And the Curious.
Find every church near you, and across all the corners of the world. With the Churches App you will seek and find all the treasures within churches, and understand them. Whether you are Christian or a curious visitor, we want to welcome you to explore. Our mission is to put technology at the service of the Church: to equip parishes and dioceses with the tools they need, to help the faithful find their way to Mass, and to open the beauty of every church to all who walk in.
Inside St. Peter's Basilica
Look closer.
Churches.app turns a visit into a guided walk: Learn what to find and why it matters. Start at St. Peter's door:
The portico, the door on the far right · I
The last of the five doors, opened only in Jubilee years and sealed again when they end.
Its sixteen bronze panels, cast for the Holy Year of 1950, trace humanity's path from sin to mercy.
App will feature points of interest inside and outside the church.
See it in action
A cathedral in your pocket.
All Cathedrals Basilicas Catholic Orthodox
A mock preview of the Churches AppOnly a simulation of the interface, not drawn to scale.The real live app will be 1000x better.
What's inside
Features on Day One.
Mass & Confessions
Mass and confession schedules, with language and rite, kept up to date by visitors and church staff.
Points of Interest
Walk the altars, relics, chapels, and artworks of each church, told with the history behind them.
My Churches
Stay close to your parish and the churches you love.
Works Offline
Download a whole city or region before you travel. Access maps and schedules without signal.
Church of the Day
One sacred place worth knowing, chosen fresh each morning from churches around the world.
History
Twenty centuries of history, told church by church.
Photo Chronicle
Visitors add their own photos, building a living record of the world's churches.
Dioceses
Every diocese, its cathedral, and its hierarchy across 2,256 sees.
Holy Days
Christmas, Easter, and feast-day Mass times, planned ahead.
Readings of the Day
Today's readings and prayers. The liturgy in your pocket, every day of the year.
Art Scanner
Point your camera at an altar, fresco, or façade, and the app tells you what you are looking at.
More features are on the way after launch.
Every church, on the map
A church in every corner of the world.
A sample of our growing map. Preview the countries below.
Churches in Italy
Churches by the numbers
10,889+
documented treasures
1,900+
basilicas
4,450+
cathedrals
Your first church is waiting.
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