100+ Church riddles

What has keys but can’t open locks? (Answer: An organ)
What is full of holes but still holds water and echoes? (Answer: A church bell)
What has a heart that doesn’t beat? (Answer: The pulpit)
What can be cracked, made, told, and played but is never appreciated in a church? (Answer: A joke)
What has many books but never gets to read them? (Answer: The church library)
What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years in a church? (Answer: The letter ‘m’)
What has a golden crown, but no head? (Answer: The altar)
What stands still but travels the world? (Answer: A church steeple)
What has a tongue but never talks? (Answer: Church bells)
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do in a church? (Answer: Your name)
What gets wetter as it dries in a church? (Answer: A towel)
What has hands but can’t clap? (Answer: The clock in the church tower)
What has a collar but no leash? (Answer: A choir robe)
What has keys but can’t open doors? (Answer: An organ)
What has four legs but never walks in a church? (Answer: The altar table)
What begins and has no end in a church? (Answer: A prayer)
What has a heart that doesn’t beat in a church? (Answer: The holy book)
What has a neck but no head in a church? (Answer: A church bell rope)
What has wings but can’t fly? (Answer: An angel statue)
What has a face but no eyes, hands but no arms in a church? (Answer: A clock)

What has a cross but doesn’t move? (Answer: The crucifix)
What has a golden crown, a white robe, and a red carpet but isn’t royalty? (Answer: The altar)
What has keys to heaven but hangs on Earth? (Answer: The church door)
What stands tall with a tale to tell but never utters a word? (Answer: The church spire)
What has a choir but no audience? (Answer: The church choir loft)
What wears a coat of paint but is never cold? (Answer: The church walls)
What has steps but never takes them? (Answer: The pulpit stairs)
What holds the echo of prayers but never speaks? (Answer: The church walls)
What has a crown but isn’t a king or queen? (Answer: The baptismal font)
What has hands that point to the sky but never wave? (Answer: The church clock)
What has a gate but no fence? (Answer: The entrance to the church yard)
What is full of stories but never talks? (Answer: The stained glass windows)
What has wings but doesn’t soar? (Answer: The angelic decorations)
What has a handle but isn’t a door? (Answer: The church offering plate)
What has a tongue but never tastes? (Answer: The church bell clapper)
What has a crown of thorns but no head? (Answer: The altar cross)
What has a face but never smiles? (Answer: The church clock)
What has steps but never climbs? (Answer: The church entrance)
What has a voice but no words? (Answer: The church organ)
What has a halo but no light? (Answer: The saintly statues)

Another Church riddles

What has steps but never goes up or down? (Answer: The church pulpit)
What has a throne but no king or queen? (Answer: The priest’s chair)
What has a roof but no walls? (Answer: The church bell tower)
What has a key but opens no locks? (Answer: The church archives)
What has a shadow but no substance? (Answer: The church candle)
What has a gate but never closes or opens? (Answer: The entrance to the churchyard)
What is tall when young and short when old? (Answer: A church candle)
What has a cloak but no face? (Answer: The church confessional booth)
What has a face but no eyes, hands but no arms? (Answer: The church clock)
What has a mouth but never eats? (Answer: The holy water font)
What has a crown but doesn’t rule? (Answer: The cross on the church steeple)
What is full of stories but never speaks? (Answer: The church tapestry)
What has a tower but no princess? (Answer: The church bell tower)
What has steps but never climbs? (Answer: The church entrance)
What has a choir but no singers? (Answer: The church choir loft)
What has wings but doesn’t fly? (Answer: The angelic decorations)
What has a book but never gets read? (Answer: The church hymnal)
What has a cross but never protests? (Answer: The church crucifix)
What has a throne but no ruler? (Answer: The church altar)
What has a gate but no fence? (Answer: The entrance to the churchyard)

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