Prince's protege Sheila E and members of his band 3rdEyeGirl were among the hundreds who remembered the late pop icon at a private ceremony at his church near Minneapolis.
Mourners dressed in black could be seen entering the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness temple in the suburb of Minnetonka on Sunday.
The service was closed to media but local television station KARE quoted the printed programme as saying that the star "found great joy and satisfaction in sharing the things he learned from the Bible with others".
Prince was baptised as a Jehovah's Witness in 2003 and was reported to have even knocked on doors in his hometown to distribute religious literature.
The singer, who was known for his on-stage vigour and healthy diet, died suddenly on 21 April at his Paisley Park estate in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen.
His family gathered there two days later when his body was cremated, according to the singer's representatives.
But his sister, Tyka Nelson, said on Friday she did not consider that "intimate gathering" to have been his funeral and that the family was still planning a public event.
"The proposed plan is to have our Memorial/Funeral/Tribute in August," she wrote on Facebook, adding that Prince's remains would be present at the forthcoming event.
"Prince and his music influenced so many people that we feel inspired to celebrate his life and legacy in just the right way," she wrote.
Investigators have not released a cause of death for Prince, but doctors were treating him for a dependence on painkillers.
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