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Young Goodman Brown
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As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once.†

congregation = people who worship together in the same building
At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadow of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that was wicked in his heart.†
On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing...
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Definitions:

(1) (congregation as in: the congregation voted)
people who worship together in the same building
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.