Which COB LED Display Fits Your Church?Fixed wall, fine pitch or all-in-one — flip-chip panels for sanctuaries, chapels and fellowship halls, no exposed lamps, front service, pitches from P0.62 to P1.875
A church auditorium mid-service — the lyrics wall as the congregation and the livestream camera both see it.
Why COB Is the Encapsulation Churches Keep Asking For
A COB LED display for church is built differently from a conventional indoor screen. The LED chips are mounted straight onto the circuit board and sealed under a resin layer, so what the congregation sees is one flat, matte surface rather than a field of individual lamps and lenses. That single change is what decides most of the arguments a church actually has about a screen.
The first argument is the camera. A worship space is lit for people, not for a screen: spotlights aimed at the platform hit the display at a shallow angle and a lamp-and-lens surface throws that light back into the lens of the livestream camera as a sheen. A sealed COB face reflects far less, which is why the black in a COB panel reads as black on the stream and not as a grey glare, and why black stays black when the house lights come up.
The second argument is handling. Volunteers wipe screens down, children run past them, stands get moved. On a SMD panel the lamp is the most exposed part of the product. On a COB panel there is no lamp to catch: the surface is sealed and rated 4H, and a module swap happens from the front of the wall, with the wall still in place.
The short answer. Three COB screens are listed below: a 600×337.5mm fixed wall at P1.25–P1.875, the same cabinet in fine pitch down to P0.62 for 4K in a 2.4–3.6m wall, and a 108″/135″/162″ all-in-one unit. The two fixed-wall screens share one 600×337.5mm cabinet, 39.75mm deep; the all-in-one is a 35.5mm unit in its own frame. All three are front service.
COB Series — 600×337.5mm COB LED Screen
The standard COB wall for a sanctuary. Sealed panel face, front service, dual signal and dual power, and a 4 kg cabinet two people can hang without a steel structure.
Fine Pitch COB — P0.62–P0.9375
For the camera at the platform edge and the front row at two metres. Native 4K inside a 2.4–3.6m wide wall, same 600×337.5mm cabinet, so a room can start here and grow.
All-in-One — 108 / 135 / 162″ COB
Panel, control system, audio and stand delivered as one unit at 35.5mm deep. The option for a fellowship hall or a rented room where nobody is going to build a frame.
See the panel handled before it goes on the wall
This clip is one of the COB LED screen installations we run at LEGIDATECH. It shows the handling sequence rather than any single model on this page. A sealed face means the module is handled as one protected part, with no exposed lamps to catch during install.
COB vs SMD vs GOB: What Changes Inside a Church
The three encapsulations are not a quality ranking, they are three trade-offs. This table is the one we walk through with a building committee that has been quoted all three.
| SMD | GOB | COB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Individual lamps soldered to the board, standing proud of it | SMD lamps, then a glue layer poured over the whole module face | Chips bonded directly to the PCB and encapsulated — one sealed face, no lamp body |
| What a finger or a cleaning cloth touches | The lamp itself | A glue layer over the lamp array | A sealed matt face, 4H, washable |
| Reflected stage light into the camera | Highest of the three, the lamp lenses catch the spotlights | Lower than SMD, but glue over a lamp array is not optically flat | Lowest, there is no lamp lens and no gap to bounce light |
| Front-row viewing on camera | Lamp grid and moiré show at the distance COB is chosen for, a front row inside about 2.5–3m | Better than SMD at the same pitch, moiré can still appear | Cleanest at fine pitch, no lamp grid for the sensor to sample |
| Practical pitch range for a church room | P2.5–P3.91, and the lowest-cost route above P2.5 | From about P1.56 upward, cost-effective at P2.5–P3.91 | P1.25–P1.875 fixed wall, P0.62–P0.9375 fine pitch |
| When it is the right answer | Large hall, first row past about 4m, budget fixed | Multi-use room, viewing further back, cost per square metre matters more than close detail | A camera in the room, or a front row inside about 3m |
What the Table Does Not Say
Two honest notes before you read too much into it. First, a GOB screen with an adequate pitch will satisfy most sanctuaries — COB earns its place when a camera is pointed at the wall or the front row is closer than about 3m. Second, pitch matters as much as encapsulation: a P2.5 COB wall two metres from the first row will still show structure, because the pixel is 2.5mm wide no matter what covers it. The longer technical breakdown of each structure, and what 4H does and does not mean, is on the COB Series page.
Which COB Screen Fits Your Room?
Start from the room and the camera, then pick the page. Sizes and pitches quoted here are the ones that ship; anything outside them is a question for the layout drawing, not a guess.
Start From the Camera, Then the Room
The camera is the constraint that decides more church builds than room size does. A livestream framed across a whole wall, or a camera at the platform edge, sets a ceiling on usable pitch long before seat count does; a room whose only screen is read from the pews can take a wider pitch and spend the difference elsewhere.
| If your room is… | The fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctuary wall, closest seat 3–4m, camera on the platform | COB Series 600×337.5mm at P1.25–P1.875 | Lamp grid clears at that distance and the sealed face stays matte under stage light |
| Front row inside about 2.5m, or a 4K broadcast camera | Fine Pitch COB at P0.62–P0.9375 | Native 4K inside a 2.4–3.6m wall, no visible structure in the shot |
| Fellowship hall, rented room, no steel budget | All-in-One 108″/135″/162″ | One delivered unit on a stand, 35.5mm deep if it ends up wall mounted |
| An existing COB wall you want extended | COB Series or Fine Pitch COB | Both use the same 600×337.5mm cabinet, so a second phase lines up with the first |
How COB Fits Next to Our Other Indoor Church LED Screens
COB is one of the platforms on our indoor church LED screens page, alongside the Ehonor fixed series, the PS slim wall and the CPS small pitch range. The distinction is simple: that page sorts screens by room and format, this page sorts them by encapsulation — what the surface is made of and what it does in front of a camera. For screens outside the building, the outdoor church LED screens category covers yard signs and building-front displays, poster church LED screens covers freestanding lobby units, and rental church LED screens covers screens that travel.
If what you need is a whole solution rather than a panel — sizing, rigging, budget and install sequence for one building — the indoor fixed-installation solution page walks that through end to end.
Church Installations We Have Built, and What the Case Pages Show
Church LED work is not new to us, and the case pages below are the ones that exist on this site today — named installations with the pitch and the wall size published on the case page itself.
| Installation | Country | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| House of Miracle Ministry | Accra, Ghana | P2.5 indoor fixed |
| Ehonor series church screen | Peru | P2.5, 5.12 × 2.88m |
| Church LED wall | United Kingdom | P2.5 indoor |
| H3 stage screen | Nigeria | P3.9, 13 sqm |
| Magic series church wall | Nigeria | P3.91, 6 × 2m |
What this table does not show. None of the installations above is a COB cabinet. They are Ehonor, H3 and Magic series walls, which is what our named church case pages document today, and those pages are where each build is described. The COB range on this page is the newer line, and we would rather say that than present an older fixed-wall project as a COB reference. What the list does establish is the range of church rooms, wall sizes and pitches we build and ship into.
Lead Time, Warranty, Price and Certification on a COB Order
Lead time. Standard production is 15–25 working days after the deposit and the approved shop drawing, plus freight. Rush schedules are quoted with the order rather than promised and re-cut later.
Warranty. Two years on modules, receiving cards and power supplies as standard, with extension available on the order. Dead pixels, driver IC failure and power supply failure are the three failure modes the warranty is written around, because they are the three that actually occur.
Price. A single per-square-metre figure is not published here because it would be wrong for most rooms: the number moves with the pitch, with the wall size rounded to whole cabinets, with the control hardware, and with freight and duties at your destination. What we send instead is an itemised quote — cabinet count and size, control system, spare modules if you want them on the order, and freight to your destination — so it can be compared line by line with another supplier’s. If a budget figure is needed before the room is fixed, give us the wall size and pitch and we will quote a range.
Certification. CE, RoHS and FCC documentation is available for the models we ship, with UL on specific configurations. The exact certificate set is confirmed in the quotation for your destination, not assumed from the range.
LEGIDATECH COB LED screens for church — flip-chip encapsulation, front service, factory-direct. Part of the Church Screens category.