18 Amazing Church Squarespace Examples
Updated JAN 19, 2021 | This page may contain affiliate links.
The first thing I do when I start a new website project is go check out what others are doing in the space. It’s the perfect way to research, learn, and get inspired!
Today, I’m going to show you 18 of my favorite church websites built with Squarespace. Dive into each one to see how they are making the most of all the Squarespace features and start writing down some ideas for your own church website. These are real church website examples that you can use to launch a new site or make your current one even better!
The best church websites are more than features and design. It’s also about how churches organize and present their content to reach new visitors and connect with current members. As you look through all these beautiful designs, think about how they’ve set up their pages, organized their navigation, and write headlines to make a lasting impression!
Grove Church
Grove Church has all the elements of a minimalistic ministry website. It’s clean design uses great photography, bold fonts, and plenty of “white space”. It’s proof that you don’t need to overthink it. In fact, it’s their simple approach (a design without all the fluff and clutter) that actually brings more clarity to their mission to “see an end of spectator Christianity.”
Heritage Church
Heritage Church is a non-denominational, multigenerational church that exists to “help people find and follow God.” While the church serves a lot of different people with 3 locations, their Squarespace website is laser focused on providing 1 online experience for their entire community. They’ve organized all their pages into an easy-to-use drop down menu helping visitors and members quickly find the information that are looking for.
Declaration Church
Declaration Church is on a mission to make disciples who are ready to declare and demonstrate Jesus to the world. Their Squarespace website is a great example of minimalistic web design in action. They use simple navigation, authentic photography, and plenty of “white space” to share their mission on every page.
Apostolic Church
Apostolic Church is on a mission to lead people to real-life transformations through their small group communities. I love how they’ve rallied all their website content around this one clear message. As soon as someone visits this homepage, they instantly know what the church is all about and how to get connected!
One Church
One Church is diverse, multiple-location ministry that believes the church is not just a place to go, but a community to join. Their simple church website uses beautiful video and photography to help tell their story. I love how the media across the site shows real people spending life together. Everything has been thoughtfully placed to present a casual and welcoming vibe.
Grace
Grace is a ministry on a mission to educate and train every church and faith organization to effectively navigate its responsibility and care for those who have been impacted by abuse. Their website is clean and organized with a priority on guiding visitors to their services and educational material. Through bold typography and powerful headlines, they’re able to create a message of hope for those who need it most.
Radiant Church
It’s easy to mistake a simple website as boring, but Radiant Church makes simple look vibrant and fun! Their Squarespace website features colorful images and bold fonts throughout. From displaying sermons to presenting events, it’s a great reminder that you’re allowed to have some fun with your online presence.
Westside Family Church
Westside Family Church is multi-campus ministry focusing on growing families through groups and events. Their interactive website is one of my favorite Squarespace church examples. While the vibrant colors and modern fonts add to the excitement, the page structure and content is practical and rich with helpful content. I love how they go all in on what they do best…serving families.
Northside Church
As their slogan says, Northside Church is a gospel-centered community on a mission and their website echoes that message on every page. From beautiful fonts to cohesive color tones, this church website is one of the most put-together sites I’ve seen. It’s polished and friendly, which isn’t an easy combination to pull off. But what I love most is how they’ve put all the built-in Squarespace features to work for their ministry with full-featured sermons, events, and groups pages.
Engage Church
Engage church serves two campuses in Canada and admittedly understands that going to a new church can be intimidating and awkward. Their website has a modern style with a casual vibe and goes to extra lengths to make sure visitors feel comfortable and welcomed.
Church Project
The church project is on a mission to rethink church and return to the essence of gathering and living the way Christ and the early church intended. While they still meet every Sunday for a church-wide gathering, they focus on building a thriving community around nearly 50 house groups. Their website is literally the front door to their ministry and used as a tool to communicate and connect visitors to a nearby house group.
Crossroads Community Church
Crossroads Community Church is one of the best church Squarespace websites I’ve found. I often use it as an example to model other church websites after. I love how they’ve kept a consistent image tone throughout every page with green accents to match the church’s brand. Overall, the website uses a combination of casual writing with friendly photography to create an authentic and welcoming vibe.
The Father’s House OC
The Father’s House OC website is just cool. I mean, they have a video of surfers and other fun city spots playing on their homepage! Thankfully, the style doesn’t stop there…the entire website is full of style with vibrant community images and background textures. This church website definitely wins the award for most hip!
Five Oaks Church
Five Oaks has a colorful and lively church website that’s focused on reaching busy families. From a streamlined navigation to an event calendar and family resource blog, they’ve put all the built-in Squarespace features to work to build stronger communities and meaningful relationships.
Oasis Church
Oasis Church has a big heart for their city and they’ve done a great job letting everyone know with their strong headlines and images. True to their mantra, they also want to be known more for what they are for instead of what they are against. This minimalistic church website is a great example of how to lead with your main message upfront and a good reminder that sometimes what you don’t say is just as important as what you do. What’s your mission? Follow the Oasis Church example, get rid of the distractions, and make sure your visitors know what you’re all about and how you can help!
Risen Church
Risen Church exist to help the people of LA know Jesus, grow in their faith, and serve their community. This one page church website is prioritized to reach new visitors. It begins with service information, then explains the importance of know, grow, and serve and ends by answering popular visitor questions. They’ve used friendly images and icons throughout to create an authentic and relaxed online experience.
Council Road Baptist Church
It’s clear that Council Road Baptist Church is all their people and they’ve organized their stylish Squarespace website so help visitors know they really do care about them. From engaging looping videos to team headshots and group pages, this website is polished with a friendly twist!
Mosaic Church
The Mosaic Church website uses several design elements to stand out from the crowd. From the creative textures to the bold color palette, they’ve created a unique and special online experience for their guests. They’ve also done a great job using default Squarespace features to power their audio messages and showcase events. Mosaic is a refreshing reminder that your church website can break the mold to reach new audiences.
Is Squarespace right for your church?
Now that you’ve seen some real church websites rocking Squarespace, let’s figure out if it’s the best church website solution for your specific ministry. Here’s 3 really good things you should know about Squarespace.
Squarespace just works
If your ministry moves as fast as mine does, you don’t have time to stop and fix things. Thankfully, Squarespace does all the heavy lifting for you. It’s easy to use and adding features like a blog or an event calendar is practically 1 click away. And when most systems get messy in smaller devices, Squarespace just works no matter which device your visitors are using. From Androids to iPads, your content will look great without any extra work!
Squarespace is affordable
When you consider all of your options, Squarespace offers the biggest bang for your buck. In my recent comparison, Squarespace was cheaper than both a comparable self-hosted WordPress setup and Wix.
Website Builder Cost Comparison
In the cost comparison graph above, WordPress costs $199 upfront (for churchthemes.com package) and $15 a month for Flywheel hosting. The Wix’s Combo plan, which removes ads and includes a free domain for 1 year is $156 per year. The Squarespace Personal plan which includes a free domain for 1 year is $16 per month or $144 when paid annually.
Squarespace is actually fun to use
This may not be on your radar, but for someone who builds websites ever day, I can tell you that enjoying your website platform is half the battle. I would argue anyone on your team will be able to use Squarespace after a day or two of practice. The drag-and-drop builder is intuitive and just fun to play with.
As a bonus, Squarespace offers built in stock photography through Unsplash, which means no more hunting around websites for the right event or blog image. You can look through thousands of images right there while you work inside of the builder.
What no one else is telling you about Squarespace
Like all other website builders, Squarespace can’t do it all. And this wouldn’t be a fair review if I didn’t tell you the potential drawbacks of using Squarespace for your church.
Yes, it comes with tons of amazing features like events, blogs, and drag-and-drop page sections, but it’s meant to work over a broad spectrum of businesses and organizations. This means that some of the features aren’t as robust as you may like.
Events and limitations
It’s not uncommon to want a church calendar and community events listed on your website. Thankfully, Squarespace has a pretty sweet calendar and event solution. You can create an event page and even drop related events on specific pages throughout your site. Let’s say you have a kids page and want to add a section to display all the upcoming kid events. No problem! Just drop an event summary block in and select the kids category. Now every time you add a new kid event, it will show up on the main calendar and on the kids page!
But what happens if you want to repeat an event every week? Well - as of now - you can’t set events to repeat automatically, which can be a real bummer if you have a bible study that meets every Tuesday at 7pm. You’ll have to manually duplicate the event and change the date for each week. It’s not the end of the world, but man, that’s a feature that could really save you some time!
Lack of Squarespace church templates
Just like Squarespace features, templates are meant to work for a wide variety of businesses, bloggers, and organizations. This means there’s no default church template to start with. You’ll have to customize a general business template to make it work for your ministry. The trade off is that every Squarespace plan includes a free template and like we’ve discussed, their templates are easy to use and fun. So there’s no harm in messing around with one to see what you can create.
But what if there was a faster way to get your church website built with Squarespace?
Introducing Church Squarespace Templates
For those who want to speed up the process or level up their church website design, I’ve created church Squarespace templates that come with prebuilt ministry features for all your groups, sermons, and event pages! Each template comes with over 10 pages organized and styled for you. All that’s left is swapping in your text, adding images, and launching!
Meet Bold, the latest Squarespace template for churches!
See what other churches have built with a Church Squarespace template!
Christie built this with the BOLD Church Template - Calvary Church, Ontario, Canada
Pastor Cornell built this dynamic church sermon library with SIMPLE Church Template - Metro Assembly of God, Ohio, United States
Happy website building!
P.S. Do you know of a great church website built on Squarespace that should be on the list? Let us know in the comments so we can check it out!
