congregation vs collection

congregation and collection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
congregation	Yes	No	No	No
collection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collection is a hypernym of congregation; that is, collection is a word with a broader meaning than congregation:

congregation: an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
collection: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Other hypernyms of congregation include accumulation, aggregation, assemblage.

congregation (noun)	collection (noun)
the act of congregating	the act of gathering something together
a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church	a publication containing a variety of works
an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole