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congregation
in
The Women of Brewster Place
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Canaan's congregation, the poor who lived in a thirty-block area around Brewster Place, still worshiped God loudly.†
p. 62.9 *

congregation = people who worship together in the same building
The choir clapped and stomped each syllable into a devastating reality, and just as it did, the congregation reached up, grabbed the phrase, and tried to clap and stomp it back into oblivion.†
p. 63.6
The song ended with a huge expulsion of air, and the congregation sat down as one body.†
p. 64.4
He eyed the congregation confidently.†
p. 65.3
The techniques he had used to brand himself on the minds of the congregation were not new to her.†
p. 66.5
This woman was still dripping with the juices of a full-fleshed life—the kind of life he was soon to get up and damn into hell for the rest of the congregation—but how it fitted her well.†
p. 67.2
Well, no Reverend, I'm not a member of the congregation, but I was raised up in the church.†
p. 68.1

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.