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

How many churches are in Alabama?

Alabama has 9,976 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 542 cities and towns. 203 listings are verified, 9,550 include a phone number, and 2,205 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 10,741 congregations of 143 religious bodies in Alabama, with 3,194,369 reported adherents across 67 counties. 70 Alabama church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 2 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

9,976
Directory listings
10,741
2020 Census congregations
3,194,369
2020 Census adherents
70
NRHP churches
AL capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Alabama (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Southern Baptist Convention 3,265 1,255,396
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,301 514,980
United Methodist Church 1,091 250,679
Catholic Church 162 249,650
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 247 121,168
Churches of Christ 839 105,147
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 378 101,998
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 352 61,231
Assemblies of God 342 47,789
African Methodist Episcopal Church 235 45,682
Episcopal Church 123 41,339
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 77 37,765
Jehovah's Witnesses 157 34,534
Presbyterian Church in America 109 27,751
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 169 26,276
Where the churches are

Alabama cities with the most listings

Alabama counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Alabama (AL) 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 Alabama directory, and dataset licensing.