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A free church website template for WordPress: service times, ministries, events, messages, giving and a plan-your-visit form for first-time guests.
Free
GPL license - Free for personal & commercial use
- No account or email required
- Downloaded from the official source
- Type
- Open source
- License
- GPL
- Updated
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About Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a free church website template for WordPress. It includes a 15-section home page, service times, a first-time visitor guide, ministries, events, sermons (messages), what we believe, giving and a built-in plan-your-visit form — made for churches, chapels and faith-based organizations.
Pages included
- Home — The full home page: hero, service times, welcome, what to expect, ministries, events, messages, beliefs, community numbers, giving, stories, gallery, FAQ and plan-your-visit form.
- Plan a visit — What to expect, service times, FAQ and plan-your-visit form.
- Ministries — Ministries for kids, youth, adults and serving, with small groups and giving.
- Events — Upcoming events, messages and gallery.
- About — Church story, beliefs, numbers, stories and a call to action.
- Contact — Plan-your-visit form, church address, office hours and FAQ.
- Messages — a styled blog with three demo posts, archive and search templates.
A 15-section home page
Hero · Service times · Welcome · What to expect · Ministries · Events · Messages · What we believe · Community numbers · Giving · Stories · Gallery · Call to action · FAQ · Plan-your-visit form.
Custom plugins included
Booking Requests — our own free plugin, bundled in the ZIP and installed in one click. It adds a booking and quote-request form block with a request inbox, email notifications, status tracking and CSV export.
Fast, accessible and SEO-friendly
Sanctuary is a block theme: every section is a pattern you can edit in the WordPress page editor with no code. It uses self-hosted fonts, no theme JavaScript, AA color contrast and responsive layouts, and works with Yoast, Rank Math and other SEO plugins. Three color styles are included. Looking for a church website template, ministry website template and faith community WordPress theme? Install Sanctuary, import the demo and start editing in minutes.
Features
- Block editor
- Booking form
- Pricing tables
- Style variations
- One-click demo
- Accessibility-ready
- Responsive
- SEO-ready
Live demos
Runs a real WordPress site with this theme installed, right in your browser. Nothing to install — it resets when you close it.
Custom plugins included
Built by us, free to use and bundled inside the theme ZIP. They install in one click from the theme’s setup screen.
Booking Requests
Our own free plugin, bundled in the theme ZIP and installed in one click. It adds a booking and quote-request form block: requests are saved in your dashboard, emailed to you and exportable.
- Appointment, quote and consultation form block
- Choose the questions: phone, address / ZIP, service, date, time, message and your own extra question
- Request inbox with New / Contacted / Booked / Closed tracking
- Email notifications and optional customer confirmation
- CSV export for Excel and Google Sheets
- Spam protection without CAPTCHAs (honeypot, timing check, rate limit)
- Works with WordPress personal data export and erase tools
How to install
1. Install the theme
- Download sanctuary.zip. Don’t unzip it.
- In WordPress, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme.
- Choose sanctuary.zip, click Install Now, then Activate.
2. Import the demo
- Go to Appearance → Sanctuary setup and click Import demo content.
- This creates the Home, Plan a visit, Ministries, Events, About, Contact and Messages pages, sample posts with photos, the menu and the front page. It also installs Booking Requests, our free plugin (booking form) that comes inside the theme.
3. Set up your forms
- In Bookings → Settings, add your services, preferred times and the email address that should receive requests.
- Requests appear under Bookings. Mark each one as Contacted, Booked or Closed, and export them to CSV any time.
- If notification emails don’t arrive, install an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP. Requests are always saved in the dashboard either way.
4. Make it yours
- Edit text and photos right on each page — just click and type.
- Update your phone, email, address and hours in Appearance → Editor → Patterns → Header / Footer.
- Change colors and fonts in Appearance → Editor → Styles. Try the Royal blue and Sage styles.
- Add more sections from + → Patterns → Sanctuary: Sections.
The ZIP includes INSTALL.txt with these steps.
Prefer not to do it yourself? We’ll set it up for you.
Built with
Full Site Editingtheme.jsonBlock patternsBundled plugin
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