church crawler

noun

A person who is strongly interested, in an amateur capacity, in ecclesiology, church architecture, history and church art, and visits churches in order to view the buildings for themselves, as opposed to visiting them for religious reasons.

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Meanings

nounchurch crawler (plural church crawlers)

plural church crawlers

  1. informalA person who is strongly interested, in an amateur capacity, in ecclesiology, church architecture, history and church art, and visits churches in order to view the buildings for themselves, as opposed to visiting them for religious reasons.

Origin

From church + crawler.

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APA

church crawler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/church%20crawler

MLA

“church crawler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/church%20crawler. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “church crawler,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/church%20crawler.

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