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15+ Best Church WordPress Themes

Last Updated on September 8, 2024 · 26 Comments on 15+ Best Church WordPress Themes
Best Religious Church WordPress Themes

Religious organizations require affordable website options that allow them to keep the bulk of their resources available for the work they were created to do. WordPress is fast, easy to learn and use, and offers a vast number of website theme options. Plus WordPress is probably one of the most affordable website options available since any level of user can purchase and upload a theme to create their website (no developer required).

For a religious organization or church WordPress theme, there are a few features you must have. It’s very important to have organized information. Visitors should be able to easily understand your message or purpose. A layout with focused key features (such as mission, programs, services, etc.) and a responsive layout are ideal. A built in donation system is also a great feature to look for, but think of this as a bonus since you can always install a donations WordPress plugin later on.

Keeping all of the above in mind, I searched high and low for awesome theme options that I thought you might like. Check out our top picks for the best church WordPress themes below!

1. Jubilee

Jubilee church WordPress theme

Jubilee (affiliate link) is a fast church WordPress theme with creative flair. Choose from organic, angular or square shapes to give your church website the “today” look you want. It has a “sticky” menu and mobile-friendly design to make browsing it a pleasure for visitors. Jubilee is a beautiful, easy to use theme made to help get more people through your church doors.

This WordPress theme uses the free Church Content plugin for publishing sermons (podcasting is possible), events, campus locations and team profiles. It is highly customizable and sports a built-in homepage builder with live preview that couldn’t be easier to use.

2. Saved

Saved church WordPress theme

Saved (affiliate link) is a sophisticated yet easy to use church WordPress theme. It’s most impressive feature is the real-time homepage builder. Instead of having to buy a complicated page builder plugin, you simply enter the Customizer and arrange widgets. The homepage itself is a widget area that you can drag any widget into. The church-centric widgets that the theme comes with are specially designed for use on the homepage. Your church website will have a very custom appearance with the Saved WordPress theme.

As a WordPress theme for churches, Saved has features for things like sermons and events. The post types for these come from the Church Theme Content plugin which is the highest rated sermons plugin on WordPress.org. It’s free. You can publish audio, video and text sermons. They can be classified by series, topic, speaker and book. Automatic archives are available to visitors for browsing by these taxonomies or they can view sermons from newest to oldest.

Events can be shown in a monthly calendar as well as in a list format. Recurring events can be configured to save you time. Other helpful features Saved provides for creating a church website are locations with maps, staff profiles, ministry listings and testimonies. You can also podcast your sermons and customize colors and fonts. Saved is a mobile-friendly church WordPress theme. It passes Google’s mobile test with flying colors for the benefit of phone users and your church’s search engine ranking.

3. Maisha

Maisha Charity WordPress Theme

Maisha (affiliate link) is a stunning charity and nonprofit styled WordPress with features for donations, newsletter integration, BuddyPress social network and WooCommerce shop. Best of all this theme is easy to use, so your charitable website can be up and running asap. The theme was built with full support for the popular Give WP plugin. This means you can collect charitable donations from your patrons right on your website. Want to offer products or services to fundraise? No problem – Maisha is also compatible with WooCommerce so you can easily build your own online store.

When using the theme you can easily make customizations from the live WordPress customizer. Use options for your layout, sliders, video, logo, color scheme and much more to design your website to fit your branding. The theme is also translation ready and includes RTL support, so it should work great with most languages.

4. FSE Spiritual (Free)

FSE Spiritual Free Church WordPress Theme

Create a custom website for your church for free with FSE Spiritual. Built around Gutenberg this is a quick and easy theme to get started with. The “FSE” stands for Full Site Editing, which means that you can used Gutenberg to design your entire site design from header to footer. Other helpful features include a section for staff profiles, stylish headers, sermon notes, and tons of block patterns for pages and sections.

5. Maranatha

Maranatha church WordPress theme

Maranatha (affiliate link) is a church WordPress theme with a stunning, long-scrolling homepage and every feature that a church website needs. It’s very mobile-friendly and uses a “sticky” menu that attaches to the top of the screen while you scroll so that it is always within reach. This is especially helpful for users on phones. The homepage features multiple sections with photo backgrounds and a parallax-inspired effect. Use these to highlight your church’s main content such a welcome message, your location, sermons, events, etc. It’s very customizable – just drag and drop.

Speaking of customization, you have control over colors, fonts and much more. Upload your logo or use text with a custom typeface. A selection of high quality fonts are included. And since it uses WordPress’s Customizer feature, you can see your changes in a live preview before rolling them out to your visitors (see the demo for example customizations). You can bring your church website up to date with a design matches your church’s personality with this WordPress theme. Also notice the thin-line rounded buttons and narrow content area for more comfortable reading. Maranatha is designed for today’s users.

This church WordPress theme uses the highly rated Church Theme Content plugin for managing sermons, events, people and locations. You can publish sermons as audio, video and text – plus, include PDF notes. Categorize sermons by series, topic, book of the Bible, speaker and tag. Its index templates make this church theme unique over others. You can use them to create a page listing your latest series, a topical index, a sermon archive by date and more. Other features are a full event calendar and a template made for listing your ministries.

6. Native Church

Native Church WordPress Theme

Native Church (affiliate link) is an elegant and modern church style WordPress theme, with many useful features any social or religious group will love. Included with the theme are the powerful iSermons exclusive plugin, Eventer WordPress events manager, premium Revolution Slider, WooCommerce e-commerce store support, mega menus and even complete support for the Elementor drag and drop page builder.

The them offers stand our sample demos you can quickly import to build a website for your organization quickly. Plus it’s responsive and compatible with all major browsers, so your community should have no problem using your site on whatever device they prefer. Other awesome features include shortcodes, audio and video support for sermons, upcoming events countdown timer, full events calendars (with Google Calendar integration), responsive Isotope galleries, Twitter feed and social links. All this plus more are reasons why Native Church would be great for your church or religious site.

7. Bethlehem

Bethlehem Church WordPress Theme

Bethlehem (affiliate link) is a Church WordPress that can be used by non-profit and charitable institutions to raise donations or by social entrepreneurs to crowd fund their projects using Give which is the WordPress plugin for managing donations. The them can be used by store owners to sell products online using WooCommerce. It can be used by event management companies to list and manage their events using Tribe Events Calendar. Plus the theme also offers Church related features like Sermons, Ministries, Stories and Team. And it comes with 3 different demos with 8 different header styles and 3 footer styles.

8. Exodus

Exodus Church Theme

Exodus (affiliate link) is a modern church and nonprofit style premium WordPress theme created by ChurchThemes.com. The flexible design and great features make this theme perfect for religious and community groups, nonprofits and even small businesses.

Creating and managing your website shouldn’t take hours and hours on end. And with Exodus it won’t. ChurchThemes.com has built in great options that make setting up your website easy. Plus adding content is a breeze. The included custom post types for events, sermons, locations, staff, galleries and blog ensure that you add your content where it belongs so your readers can quickly find what it is they’re looking for. Exodus also support multiple post formats including text, audio and video sermons as well as useful meta options like recurring events or event locations.

Want to customize the look of your theme too? No problemo – the built-in WordPress Theme Customizer takes the guesswork out of color tweaks and font changes. Simply navigate to the Customizer from the WordPress dashboard and make your design edits (just clicks, no code). The best part is that you can see your changes in a live preview before you commit to them. Other theme features include a custom homepage layout, unlimited pages, custom logo upload, a flat design, section banners, advanced search and more. Exodus even includes custom church type widgets for adding sermons, events, people, giving, galleries and more to sidebar or footer.

9. My Religion

My Religion Church WordPress Theme

My Religion (affiliate link) is a religious and nonprofit WordPress theme. The key elements of this theme are the exquisite events calendar. For any organization, it’s important to keep everyone involved and make sure they have easy access to a schedule. This ensures timely soup suppers, fundraisers, auctions, meetings, dress rehearsals – whatever. My Religion’s built in event calendar is perfect for just that. You can add all the relevant information for each event – date, time, location (event a map),  etc. You can even set up recurring events for things like weekly meeting or annual parties. This is a great feature you’ll want to take advantage of!

Additionally, My Religion comes with a Sermons custom post type, so you can upload and share your more recent talks and soul reaching messages with the world. Better yet – Donations are a built-in functionality as well so you can easily collect congregation contributions from your website. The theme is also full responsive, localized, and integrates with WooCommerce.

10. The Church Lite (Free)

The Church Lite Free WordPress Theme

Use the Church Lite theme to design your religious website. Built to be flexible and engaging, this theme offers plenty of features despite being completely free. For example, there are options for custom colors, backgrounds, headers, logos, menus, and layouts. Plus the theme is translation ready, so it’s a great fit for religious organizations around the world.

11. Resurrect

resurrect-church-charity-wordpress-theme

Resurrect (affiliate link) is a responsive church and nonprofit premium WordPress theme developed for regular people – you don’t have to be a design or coder to use Resurrect to create your website. ChurchThemes.com made it easy for you to build the perfect website for your church or nonprofit using the built-in homepage template and custom widgets. Then there’s the Theme Customizer which makes it quick and easy to edit colors, slider settings and other changes and view them live before saving. Resurrect also includes custom post types for events, people, locations and sermons in addition to the blog to make adding and organizing your content simple.

What good is great content if your readers can’t find what they’re looking for? Resurrect features options for searching sermons by topic, series, speaker or date. Plus you can add categories and tags to your posts so your readers and members can view the topics that interest theme. Other great options include staff profiles, recurring events support and multiple location support (this is a great feature if you have more than one location, a set of locations where you regularly meet, or important recurring event locations).

Resurrect has many other great features we’ve listed below such as plenty of customization options (color schemes, backgrounds, fonts etc). plus it’s easy to get started with the online theme documentation, included sample data, and the great support you’ll receive from the ChurchThemes.com staff. This plus more is what makes Resurrect a great theme for any nonprofit!

12. Grace

Grace Church WordPress Theme

Grace (affiliate link) is a perfect Theme for the Charity Websites. It was created to simplify the process of making a great website. The theme is suitable for making a nonprofit website plus it comes with a lot of customizable and flexible features. The theme authors have integrated it with a working donation system via Give . You will get most of all necessary section and feature for a charity or fundraising website.

Showcase upcoming events and invite your audience to attend with the included Events Calendar. It’s necessary to share your message and real faces behind a charity or nonprofit organization, so the theme has an added Podcasts, Sermons also a Team section. This way you can showcase your members as well as your recent sermons and talks. Other helpful theme features include ready to use sample demos, one click demo installation, Elementor page builder support, WooCommerce integration, typography settings, color options and much more.

13. SKT Mosque (Free)

SKT Mosque Free WordPress Theme

Create a website for your religious organization with SKT Mosque. The theme is a great fit for centers, churches, fundraisers and more. Use the theme’s options for the blog, portfolio, e-commerce support, custom menus and headers, colors and more to design a pixel perfect design.

14. Real Church

real-chuch-charity-wordpress-theme

Real Church (affiliate link) is a drag & drop religious WordPress theme that would be great for any church, social or other group. The theme includes lots of great options that make creating your organization’s website easy. Just use built-in features for custom fonts, 3 blog layouts, 6 footer layouts, unlimited colors, unlimited sidebars and lots of custom post types (events, sermons, galleries, portfolios, etc.) to get started.

15. Risen

risen-church-charity-wordpress-theme

Risen (affiliate link) is a flexible church and nonprofit WordPress theme available on Themeforest. This theme is packed with great features like multiple color schemes, sermon archives, custom fonts, custom widgets and more so that you can create a website to match your mission. The theme is responsive, so it looks great on desktop and mobile devices. You can choose from a light or a dark color scheme, choose from hundreds of custom fonts and even upload a custom background (or pick from unlimited colors). This way you can create custom look in no time at all.

One of Risen’s best features is the Sermon (or multimedia) post type. This post type supports many media formats so you can add tons of information to your website for your congregation, followers and members to access whenever they’d like. Upload videos, audio files, MP3 downloads, and even PDFs. You can share sermons, prayers, event videos, and just about anything else you’d like, or you think your readers would find interesting.

Another notable feature is the Church events calendar. Here you can add your service times, special events, office hours, volunteer opportunities and more. Also, Risen’s custom widgets make it easy to add quick links to your calendar, sermons and events on any page so your readers always know whats new and what’s going on.

16. Faith Blog (Free)

Faith Blog Free WordPress Theme

Perhaps rather than a full site you just want a blog for your religious organization. That is where the Faith Blog theme comes in. This theme is a simple blog theme that is perfect for sharing sermons, devotionals, personal stories, event highlights, holiday notes and more. Just add content and you’re ready to go!

Conclusion

Hopefully you find the perfect theme for your charity, nonprofit, church or political website. If you’ve used any of these themes let us know what you do (or don’t) like about it. And if we missed a theme you leave us a note in the comments section!

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Article by Kyla WPExplorer.com staff
26 Comments
  1. Timo Luege · 12 years ago

    For your information: using the red cross emblem is against the law – unless you are the Red Cross. Using the “WordPress Aid” theme you have included, will result in somebody getting a letter from the legal department, so I would strongly suggest you remove it from the otherwise very good list.

    • AJ Clarke · 12 years ago

      That’s a good point. The author of the theme wasn’t too careful when they created their demo and probably should remove it Or at least use a different color since the trademark consists of the red cross on the white background. If the subject was different it would be fine, but doe to his use of the terms aid/charity in the theme it could seen as an infringement. Although highly unlikely anyone would ever care to pursue such a small case.

      • davidwpowell · 10 years ago

        There’s a kind of irony here. The designer hasn’t drawn a red cross on a white background – it’s the reverse: basically a Swiss flag. *That* may be contentious! The irony is that Red Cross itself adopted the Swiss flag and reversed it for itself. In honour, I understand, of the country from which it was conceived. Wonder how that would go these days!

  2. Melissa · 12 years ago

    Dear admin. Home page of the Bodega theme, “Recent Work” area, have a bug. Please feedback me. Please, i’m waiting…

  3. Melissa · 12 years ago

    bug in the: internet exploer 9

    • AJ Clarke · 12 years ago

      The free themes are provided as-is if you are looking for help with your project please consider using one of my premium themes.

  4. Rogers · 11 years ago

    Premium themes have more advantages.

  5. Danny · 10 years ago

    I vote Total theme for you church/nonprofit needs… actually any project the theme can be adapted to 😉

  6. wpmentor · 10 years ago

    You have made great collection of Themes. Thanks.

  7. Arne · 10 years ago

    I also don’t understand the exact need of a church theme or a non-profit theme. Why should they be different from any other theme? To me almost all of these examples are the same as many others only with some church / environment related stock pictures.

    • AJ Clarke · 10 years ago

      Hi Arne,

      The designs are a bit different, remember most people aren’t developers so they can’t really re-design a theme to match the look they want. These themes have designs that are bit more focused towards the niche. Also some include extended features such as calendar/events.

  8. Jessica · 10 years ago

    I have used the Risen theme and LOVE it. It is SO easy to work with. Thanks for the excellent post – will definitely purchase a couple of these!

    • AJ Clarke · 10 years ago

      Awesome, that’s great to hear! Risen was created by a fellow friend, so I’ll let him know 😉

    • Steven Gliebe · 10 years ago

      Thanks Jessica! I’m glad you like Risen.

  9. Steven Gliebe · 10 years ago

    Thanks for including our new Exodus church theme in your roundup.

    • Kyla · 10 years ago

      Of course we included it – Risen is a fantastic theme 🙂

  10. Johnny · 10 years ago

    These themes are really amazing, I think i will use one of them.

  11. Pedro Pereira · 10 years ago

    Really awesome gathering of templates for non profits. I really enjoy them 🙂 – Thanks 😉

  12. Colin Stevens · 10 years ago

    The image shown is not a copyright image. And the reverse of a plain red cross on a white background is safe for anyone to use as it is not only used by a medical organisation as one of at least three symbols in use but is also the flag of England, the cross of St George internationally and is thus unable to be copyright as it has been in common usage since at least the 12th century. Not sure the Red Cross would waste their time trying to sue the millions of users around the world that use a red cross on a white background. After all an icon is a square so the Gross of St George as a rectangle becomes a square in web use 🙂

    • Kyla · 10 years ago

      Well said! Thanks for the info 🙂

  13. Hardik Surani · 10 years ago

    Great list of themes and specially Biosphere, Savior and Foundation are looking very good and simple to use. Thank you for sharing this list. Apart from theme another essential element of Church websites is receiving donation through a form. I know the article is related to theme but I would like to suggest a WordPress plugin “WP Church Donation” specially designed for Church websites to accept donation using Authorize.Net credit card processing. Also there are other features as well like Donation list, Donor information, dynamic thank you message and thank you email content management, etc.. The plugin is free but having good features. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-church-donation/

    • Kyla · 10 years ago

      Cool plugin – thanks for sharing it!

  14. WordPress Theme Design · 10 years ago

    Thank you for a wonderful collection, this themes are really nice.

  15. Josh · 10 years ago

    Amazing charity templates!

  16. zindesign305 · 9 years ago

    I found a nice theme for charity nonprofit – Alone. Hope it will helpful.

  17. Niraj from BloggerSprout · 2 years ago

    HI, that is a great list of church themes.

    The best thing is that you have included the Free and paid Once

    Even I have recently published some of the best themes for Church.

    Regards
    Niraj

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