sunrise service

American  

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letters)  an outdoor religious service held at dawn on Easter morning.

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Example Sentences

Church held a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. at Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times

His congregation will host the annual sunrise service at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday.

From Washington Times

The morning in 1921 when the Los Angeles Philharmonic played its first Easter sunrise service on a small wooden platform at the hillside site of the future hatch shell.

From Los Angeles Times

I sang at the Easter sunrise service in the 1950s’ “living cross” children wearing two robes, and at the exact moment we had to pull down the black robe to create the white cross.

From Los Angeles Times

Easter was emotional and new and different for many this year, including at the Lincoln Memorial sunrise service that has been a tradition since 1979, save the last two years.

From Washington Post