religious society

A body of persons organized for the purpose of maintaining religious worship, usually meeting in some stated place for the worship of God and for religious instruction. Anno: 17 ALR 1063, s. 28 ALR 864, 81 ALR 1184. More elaborately, a voluntary organization whose members are associated together not only for religious exercises, also for the purposes of maintaining and supporting its ministry, providing the conveniences of a church home, and promoting the growth and efficiency of the work of the main church body of which it forms a coordinate part. First Presbyterian Church v Dennis, 178 Iowa 1352, 161 NW 183. This term as it is used in the contemplation of a constitutional provision providing for exemption from taxation is to be taken in its ordinary acceptation as meaning an association or body of communicants or a church usually meeting in some stated place for worship or for instruction, or organized for the accomplishment of religious purposes, such as instruction or dissemination of some tenet or particular faith or otherwise furthering its teaching. Mordecai F. Ham Evangelistic Asso. v Matthews, 300 Ky 402, 189 SW2d 524, 168 ALR 1216, 1221.