Churches in New York County
New York County, New York has 567 churches in the Churches List directory, 75 of them verified and 137 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 1,165 congregations and 886,745 adherents across 109 religious bodies in the county. That is 523 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 1,694,250 people.
Religious bodies in New York County (2020 US Religion Census)
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 87 | 360,463 | 212.8 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 308 | 76,456 | 45.1 |
| Orthodox Judaism | 57 | 64,000 | 37.8 |
| Muslim Estimate | 20 | 62,536 | 36.9 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 73 | 57,104 | 33.7 |
| Hindu Temples | 1 | 40,000 | 23.6 |
| Mahayana Buddhist | 29 | 25,899 | 15.3 |
| Reform Judaism | 10 | 24,943 | 14.7 |
| Episcopal Church | 46 | 19,544 | 11.5 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA | 39 | 17,389 | 10.3 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 13 | 11,592 | 6.8 |
| Conservative Judaism | 9 | 10,441 | 6.2 |
Source: 2020 US Religion Census (Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies). Per-1,000 rates divide reported adherents by the county's 2020 Census population (1,694,250). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
Historic-register churches in the county
- St. James — National Register, 1972
- Saint Marks Church in the Bowery — National Register, 1972
- Church of the Good Shepherd - Roosevelt Island — National Register, 1972
- John Street United Methodist Church — National Register, 1973
- St. Patrick's Old Cathedral — National Register, 1977
- West End Collegiate Church — National Register, 1980
- Saint Augustine's Church — National Register, 1980
- Transfiguration — National Register, 1980
- Church of the Incarnation — National Register, 1982
- St. Paul the Apostle — National Register, 1991
Notable churches in New York County
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St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church
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St Peter's Roman Catholic Church
Saint Peter's Church/Our Lady of the Rosary is a Catholic church in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The current building was constructed from 1836 to 1840 and w...
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The Church of St. Francis Xavier
St. Francis Xavier Church is a Catholic parish at 30–36 West 16th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. It...
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St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of New York, at 211 West 30th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Fur District of the...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard
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St Agnes Church
The Church of St. Agnes is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 143 East 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1...
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St. Paul & Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church
The Church of St. Paul is a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of New York, located in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The sixth parish established in New...
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Holy Name of Jesus and St. Gregory the Great Parish
The Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York located at 207 West 96th Street at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue on t...
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Holy Cross Church
Holy Cross Church is a Catholic parish church located at 329 West 42nd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, near...
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Annunciation Church
The Church of the Annunciation is a Roman Catholic parish church, located in Manhattanville/West Harlem in Manhattan. Founded in 1853, it is a parish of the Archdiocese of New York...
Immaculate Conception
The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 414 East 14th Street, near First Avenue, Manhattan, New York Ci...
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Atlah World Ministries
ATLAH World Missionary Church is a Christian church and ministry located in Harlem, New York. James David Manning is the chief pastor. The church campus is the site of the unaccred...
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Cities and towns in New York County
Directory traditions here: Catholic (134) · Baptist Churches (82) · Non-Denominational (68) · Episcopal (35) · African Methodist Episcopal (22) · Methodist (20) · Seventh Day Adventist (19) · Presbyterian (17) · Evangelical (15) · Lutheran (14)
Researching ancestors from New York County?
Church registers are among the richest genealogical sources: baptisms, marriages, and burials often predate civil records. The FamilySearch catalog holds microfilmed church records for many New York counties, filed by denomination and parish name: search New York County church records on FamilySearch (free account). Cross-reference with the historic-register churches above and the cemeteries listed on each church's page.
Disaster history of New York County
FEMA has issued 23 disaster declarations covering New York County since records began in 1953, most recently in 2021. The most frequent cause: hurricane (8 declarations). Churches have historically served as shelters and relief hubs in these events; congregations can register preparedness plans with their county emergency management agency.
Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.
How this county page is assembled
Directory listings are mapped to New York County through the US Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file: each ZIP Code Tabulation Area is assigned to the county holding the largest share of its land area, so a small number of churches in ZIP codes that straddle county lines may be attributed to a neighboring county. Congregation and adherent counts come from the 2020 US Religion Census and are reported by the religious bodies themselves. Population is the county's April 2020 decennial-census base from the US Census Bureau's population-estimates program; per-1,000 adherence rates divide reported adherents by that figure. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.