The Satanic Temple began offering online services in 2021 for the safety of our community and to make our services more accessible to our members all around the world.
Once upon a time, before online services began, The Satanic Temple held in-person services in Salem, Massachusetts. 
A building caretaker would guide an informal discussion of a new topic every week. Everybody had a chance to speak, and nobody was pressured or put on the spot. 
Temple Tuesday Services (TTS) were the first online services to launch in 2021, hosted on The Satanic Estate platform. 
Tuesday Services were managed by Estate Caretakers who maintained the core values of Satanic services as interactive events that strengthened our community through friendly discussion. 
Temple Weekend Services (TWS) launched several months later on The Satanic Temple TV to serve our growing global community. They centered topics of interest to our communities in Australia and Europe to facilitate a global collaboration of our Satanism. 
In 2023, Tuesday and Weekend Services consolidated and are now both hosted on The Satanic Temple TV, while carrying forward the same community culture that developed from the beginning. 
Keep scrolling down to learn more about our online Satanic Religious Services.
Q: What happens in these online Satanic religious services?
A: An ordained Minister of Satan opens the service, recites the invocation, introduces a topic, and leads a discussion among a small number of interlocutors (sometimes called panelists) on the live stream while audience members watch and interact with each other in the text chat.
Service Format
1 Preamble: The audience assembles and socializes in the chat until the live stream begins.
2 Invocation: The minister recites The Satanic Temple’s invocation.
3 Declamation: The minister introduces the topic of the evening.
4 Discussion: The interlocutors and minister discuss the topic of the evening.
5 Peroration: The minister closes by inviting congregants to reflect on the topic.
6 Announcements: The minister thanks the participants and announces upcoming activities.
You can watch recordings of most of our past services in the Services Archive, and subscribe to the (audio only) Satanic Religious Services podcast to stay up-to-date with services you may have missed.