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⛪️Church Emoji
⛪️ is the church emoji, U+26EA U+FE0F, one of 6 in the Religious Buildings set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for bless, chapel and christian.
What ⛪️ church means
Six houses of worship, used for religious holidays, life events and identity in bios more than for architecture. ⛪️ does weddings and funerals as much as faith; 🕌 and 🕋 turn up around Ramadan and Hajj; ⛩️ is read as Japan generally, not only Shinto. 🛕 hindu temple was a late addition, arriving in Emoji 12.0.
Unicode tags this one bless, chapel and christian and files it under Travel & Places → Religious Buildings.
Copy variants
church carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⛪️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⛪U+26EAchurch
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+26EA U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⛪️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⛪️ | |
| CSS | \26EA\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26EA}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000026EA\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u26EA\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{26ea}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{26EA}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{26EA}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9B%AA%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9B AA EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26EA FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4puq77iP | |
| Decimal | 9962 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- bless
- chapel
- christian
- cross
- religion
Appears in these collections
How to type ⛪️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “church”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bless”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type26eaand Enter. - HTML — paste
⛪️.
How ⛪️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ⛪️Apple
- ⛪️Segoe
- ⛪️Noto
- ⛪️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ⛪️ church emoji mean?+
⛪️ is the church emoji, tagged bless, chapel and christian. Six houses of worship, used for religious holidays, life events and identity in bios more than for architecture. ⛪️ does weddings and funerals as much as faith; 🕌 and 🕋 turn up around Ramadan and Hajj; ⛩️ is read as Japan generally, not only Shinto. 🛕 hindu temple was a late addition, arriving in Emoji 12.0.
What is the Unicode code for ⛪️?+
church is U+26EA U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⛪️, in CSS \26EA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26EA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⛪️ emoji added?+
church got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Religious Buildings in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⛪️ church.