Churches List A Directory of American Churches
State statistics · updated June 2026

How many churches are in Alaska?

Alaska has 902 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 104 cities and towns. 101 listings are verified, 888 include a phone number, and 307 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 1,264 congregations of 95 religious bodies in Alaska, with 258,020 reported adherents across 30 counties. 8 Alaska church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 1 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

902
Directory listings
1,264
2020 Census congregations
258,020
2020 Census adherents
8
NRHP churches
AK capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Alaska (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Non-denominational Christian Churches 194 73,930
Catholic Church 89 40,280
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 81 33,495
Southern Baptist Convention 129 15,849
Assemblies of God 90 12,099
Orthodox Church in America 85 10,185
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 31 7,906
Jehovah's Witnesses 31 6,096
Episcopal Church 46 6,072
United Methodist Church 30 4,700
Seventh-day Adventist Church 32 4,637
Theravada Buddhist 6 4,569
Church of the Nazarene 28 4,256
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ 10 3,615
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 20 3,171
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Largest traditions in the Alaska directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 140
Non-Denominational 123
Catholic 76
Lutheran 54
Episcopal 42
Seventh Day Adventist 38
Assemblies of God 38
Church of God 29
Church of the Nazarene 28
Presbyterian 27
Bible 26
Evangelical 26
Church of Christ 24
Methodist 24
Community 22
Where the churches are

Alaska cities with the most listings

Alaska counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Alaska (AK) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · California · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan. See also the national statistics page, the Alaska directory, and dataset licensing.