30 Useful Church Website Templates for Religious Websites

Posted by Sonny M. Day on Jul 8, 2012 in Wordpress News | 0 comments

Churches are the institutions of our society whose need to disseminate their message and information is extremely high. As most other modern organization, churches need a medium to distribute their voice online and nothing does the job better than good looking Church Website Templates running on WordPress. Since each church typically have their own needs for their website, a custom made theme is always preferable, but custom made church website templates do not always come cheap.

Considering that most churches work on a limited budget, they often can’t spend a sizeable amount of money to pay a professional web designer. For this reason, I am showcasing a collection of church website templates for WordPress which are affordable, efficient, appealing, and easy to update. If I missed a theme for church websites worth showcasing in this category, or if you have any comment or suggestion, as to how to improve this list, please feel free to write them below. We will have that covered in a future post or an update.

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Identity Church and NGO Template – DEMO

Identity is an html website template specially designed for Church, NGO and non profit websites. This template is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning. This template comes in 5 pre made color variations: red, blue, gray, green and orange. But it will only take one minute to create your desired color schemes.

Risen – Church WordPress Theme (Responsive) – DEMO

This church theme for WordPress has the features a church website needs — a mobile-friendly responsive design, sermon archive, photo and video gallery, church events calendar, support for multiple locations, staff profiles and church news. The sermon archive is complete with the ability for visitors to search for audio, video and text sermons by category, tag, date and speaker. Risen has powerful customization options that make it easy to change the theme’s colors, fonts and background.

Just Believe Church and NGO Template – DEMO

JustBelieve is an html template specially designed for Church, NGO and non profit websites. Just like Identity this template is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning.

Simple Press – DEMO

SimplePress is a slick new page-based church website template popular among church websites because of its clean and professional look. It features a homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, fully functional Blog and Gallery sections and ePanel theme options among others. Among the churches that adopts this cool theme is:

Victoria Hall Christian Fellowship, Camberly

Relief – Charity HTML Template – DEMO

Relief is a website template designed with Charities and other non-profit organisations in mind. It has 12 HTML Pages Included, 5 Pre Configured Colour Schemes, Google Fonts, Photo Gallery with PrettyPhoto, Contact page with Google Maps and more.

Glory – The WordPress Theme for Churches – DEMO

We all want our message to get across. We all want it to be understood. Our church’s godly message also does. Perhaps more than anything else. Help your church to find a good theme in this collection of church website templates. Happy surfing!

Bhinneka Non-profit WordPress theme – DEMO

Bhinneka is a responsive WordPress theme with two-column page layouts, slideshow support, three alternative styles, widgets and drop down menus. Perfect for non-profit organization, charity, or corporate websites.

Wisdom Of Life – NGO and Charity Theme – DEMO

WISDOM of Life, it’s a clean and elegant theme, developed mainly to setup NGOs, non-profit organizations and corporate websites. Using the color scheme of your choice by using color picker make it elegant and high visual impact experience. This theme is best suitable for a small to large NGO Organizations to setup reference website. Theme works in all the major browsers, and has massive features to use for your next projects as well.

WP Church – DEMO

This church theme is created on a highly intelligent framework. It has automatic scripture finders, custom built image galleries, mp3 players and calendars. You can do away with plugins with this theme. It also have configurable slideshow, Google maps with street view and directions, newsletter subscription widget, custom gallery with countdown timer, upcoming events widget, and custom built sermon gallery.

Rebirth – The WordPress Theme for Churches – DEMO

Rebirth is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one on the block! Feel free to send me feature requests if you feel I’ve missed something!

Outreach – DEMO

Outreach is a beautiful church website template with fixed width, 6 layout options, featured images, threaded comments and theme options. One of the churches which is using this theme:

David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Austin Texas, USA

Born – DEMO

On-line presences is important today. Born is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one in your area.

WordPress Aid – DEMO

WordPress Aid is ideal for charity organizations. It’s focused on raising funds for your charity and alerting visitors to important issues happening in the world.

Trinity – DEMO

Trinity is a squeaky clean design aimed at helping churches deliver their content in modern style. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Clean lines and prominent typography make Trinity the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.

Mu – DEMO

Although Mu is designed for church websites, this church website template also appeals to other websites aside from churches and religious organizations. It goes with a myriad of features which can be easily configured to suit the particular mood of the site. It has sidebars which are fully widgetized and home page content areas. It also has an amazing carousel effect to display images or any other content. Because Mu is built primarily for church purposes, it is the most popular WordPress theme around. It has a lot of followers like:

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hollywood CA

City North Church, Brisbane Australia

GC02 Religious – DEMO

Religious … The Church Theme made by KarmaThemes with a lot of useful features.

True North – DEMO

True North is a premium WordPress theme with extensive power and flexibility. It is simple to use and has a elegant design Just like Crossroads it is built specifically for churches as a platform that allows for complete management over the website. True North is the perfect solution for small and medium sized churches who need an easy-to-use website. True North has a considerable array of custom features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more.

Refine – DEMO

Refine Church WordPress Theme has a considerable array of custom features that are managed through a custom options panel, and custom widgets. These customizations allow your church to manipulate the themes features, whether it be the logo, service times, homepage images, hours of operations, webcasts, and more. Through these features, you can bring your information swiftly to anyone who visits your site. With the Refine Church Theme, you can manage all your events, videos, podcasts, photos, church news, ministries, and more. You also have the ability to choose from five various color styles for the theme, which include variations of blue, red, grey, green, and brown.

WordPress Church – DEMO

WordPress Church theme has social bookmarks for sharing posts and articles, featured items on the home page, and crosses in the footer and doves in the header. It is also widget ready and offers a free version upgrade if you purchase this church website theme.

Providence Church of God, NC USA

Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem PA

Ecclesia – DEMO

This wordpress church website template, is made with church blogs or websites in view. It is flexibility and friendly user interface, can help you a lot in bringing the website of your church to a higher level. It features, easy columns shortcodes, carefully crafted typography, widget layout and color options, flexible frontpage layout, jQuery slider, theme options panel, unlimited color variations, typography shortcodes, 17 custom widgets, and multilevel drop AJAX contact forms.

Light of Peace – DEMO

This church website template is based on the 960 grid. It has a valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict , font replacement ( cufon ), lightbox gallery, working contact form with validation, seven page template, six PSDs, a jQuery slider, pop out window to display Service Times / Direction information, drop down navigation bar, and jQuery tabs.

Devine Light – DEMO

DivineLight is a church website template that features a warm inviting color scheme and a clean style mixed with rich leather touches. It also comes with complete PSD set designed with Churches in mind. This entire design is grid based, utilizing the rule of thirds, based on a 16px baseline.

Authentic Church – DEMO

Authentic Church is church website design which is simple, unique, and uncluttered Premium WordPress theme which is easy to use. You can completely dictate what goes on your homepage with its one control panel page.

Hopeful – DEMO

Hopeful is a feature-rich non-profit church theme with an elegant yet powerful design mechanisms. With this WordPress theme, you can choose Blue, Brown, Red, Green, Pink as color of your church blog. It features a Paypal donation widget for easy acceptance of funds from donors. Its simple, clean and user friendly theme options panel, makes your blog up and running to make every visit to your site an enjoyable experience filled with enlightening lessons from the gospels.

Epic Church – DEMO

This church WordPress theme is designed to make the website of your church look great. It is very easy to use with smoothly functional widgets and responsive design. It features custom widgets for last podcast message, contact details, Facebook like box, featured page and video. MailChimp integration in the contact widget etc.

Charity Theme – DEMO

With Charity theme, you can customize your background images, logos, text color and of your files of your theme. It goes with a pretty powerful custom page layout add-on called Carrington Build. This enables you to make pages on the fly without altering or a line of code or a template file . It also has a customized image for your images with options for alt text, link, height and width.

Antioch – DEMO

Antioch is a design suited for any church seeking to appeal to a wide audience. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Subtle shadows and rich typography make Antioch the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.

Ray of Light – DEMO

This wordpress theme is perfect for churches and religious movements. It features are rich and highly customizable. It also has its own gallery and five custom widgets, that allow you do whatever you want with your sidebar.

Sea Side Church – DEMO

This church website template for WordPress has a beautiful contact page that displays a map to your ministry along with the necessary contact information or direction. It has an integrated staff page where members are listed with images and their contact information in a gorgeous and easy to use fashion. You can also select your own plugin and its ability to podcast is right there out of the box. It also has widgets for featured post, recent tweets and featured videos.

bSocial – DEMO

bSocial is another church website template which is ideal for ministry oriented websites. It features multiple page templates — like Feedreader and Search, widget-ready sidebar, search engine optimized pages, automatic image resizing — for front feature boxes, easy feature image uploading — with automatic image rotating and comprehensive Theme Options page. Churches which are using this kind of theme are:

Essential Church VirginiaBeach, VA

Lutheran Church of the Resurrection-Marion, IA

Boldy WordPress Theme (Free) – DEMO

Boldy is a free to download, great WordPress church website template which has earned its popularity among churches.

Among its users are:

Life Pointe Church, Amory, Mississippi

Bethany Community Church, Philadelphia, PA

Upsilon (FREE) – DEMO

This very popular free WordPress church website template has 2-columns and a sidebar widget support and a totally cool SmoothGallery header. This church web design theme also supports an album. Some of its users are:

Iglesia Bautista Misionera Shalom Una Iglesia, Mexico

Northwest Baptist Church, Wauwatosa WI

Crossroads – DEMO

Crossroads is a powerful and flexible Church website template for WordPress making your customization easy. It is simple to use and has a beautiful design. Built specifically for churches as a platform, Crossroads has a considerable array of features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more. All these tools will help you bring your service and information to anyone who visits or site!

Trinity Community Church – DEMO

This clean and impressive design for a WordPress church theme features an easily editable homepage graphic buttons, fully editable multi-level, CSS drop-down menu and easily editable, multi-image javascript homepage slideshow. It has three distinct layouts for its pages (two column interior layouts, single column interior, and a homepage with slideshow and graphic buttons).

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