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A careful, hand-tended catalog of Christian communities across the United States — from clapboard meetinghouses in Vermont to the great cathedrals of the Pacific coast. Browse by tradition, by city, or by the shape of your longing.

Churches and community organizations are found through maps, directories, and local search; a practical local seo plan uses the same care with names, locations, and trust signals.

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This season, we commend —

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Feature · MT

United Methodist · Choteau, MT

Choteau United Methodist Church

№ 02 · Baptist Churches

Baptist Church

Chicago, IL

№ 03 · Pentecostal

Pentecostal Church

Chicago, IL

№ 04 · United Methodist

Simpsonville United Methodist Church

Simpsonville, SC

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From The Letter

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Latest United States

Where America Keeps Its Churches

Church density measured across 3,116 counties. Mississippi leads at 23.0 congregations per 10,000 residents, Yukon-Koyukuk in Alaska at 10.3 per 1,000. What that measures, and what it does not.

August 14, 2026 5 min read

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Browse by tradition

10 of 88 shown · 334,555 total churches

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Or, by place.

51 states · 25,013 towns and cities

A selection of cities

A note from the editor

Is your congregation findable?

We counted every church we hold. 237,225 of 334,555 have no website, and only 3.4 percent have claimed the free Google listing that answers a church near me search, while Americans run more than a million of those searches every month.

So we built two free things and put them where anyone can use them. Look up your congregation and see exactly what a search engine can find about it today, then follow four steps that need no budget, no web developer and no application to anyone. Both work in every state.

Disclosure: the editor who maintains this directory also runs a search consultancy, and a free programme for Orange County nonprofits. The audit and the checklist are free to everyone and ask nothing in return. Nothing on Churches List can be bought, see our editorial standards.

Check your church, free Read the checklist

Step one: Claim your Google Business Profile. Free, about ten minutes, and it is what answers a local search.
Step two: Publish service times somewhere permanent. Six facts are a complete church page.
Step three: Claim your listing here, or add it if we are missing you.
Step four: Name a person who answers the phone.
What it costs: Nothing, anywhere in the country.

Find the church
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