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Sunday Assembly

Non-religious gathering

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Sunday Assembly is a non-religious gathering co-founded by Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans in January 2013 in London, England. The gathering is mostly for non-religious people who want a similar communal experience to a religious church, though religious people are also welcome. As of December 2019, assemblies are established in 48 locations around the world with the majority in Europe and the United States, and are run and funded by volunteers from their communities.

Editorial summary

“Sunday Assembly” enters the record as non-religious gathering. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sunday, Assembly and Non-religious can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sunday, Assembly and Non-religious.
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“Sunday Assembly” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sunday, Assembly and Non-religious provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sunday Assembly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.