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

How many churches are in District of Columbia?

District of Columbia has 643 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 1 cities and towns. 15 listings are verified, 632 include a phone number, and 274 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 751 congregations of 95 religious bodies in District of Columbia, with 389,241 reported adherents across 1 counties. 19 District of Columbia church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 0 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

643
Directory listings
751
2020 Census congregations
389,241
2020 Census adherents
19
NRHP churches
DC capital N
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Largest religious bodies in District of Columbia (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 41 81,735
Non-denominational Christian Churches 145 60,230
American Baptist Churches in the USA 61 31,566
Southern Baptist Convention 82 27,837
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 28 25,368
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. 26 19,568
Episcopal Church 32 15,384
Reform Judaism 3 11,248
African Methodist Episcopal Church 12 9,784
United Methodist Church 28 9,355
Muslim Estimate 10 7,528
Assemblies of God 14 7,043
Ethiopian Orthodox 9 6,900
Jehovah's Witnesses 23 6,088
Mahayana Buddhist 4 5,652
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Largest traditions in the District of Columbia directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 209
Non-Denominational 73
Catholic 48
Methodist 31
Episcopal 29
Church of God 25
Church of Christ 20
Pentecostal 19
African Methodist Episcopal 18
Seventh Day Adventist 16
Evangelical 14
Community 13
Lutheran 13
United Methodist 12
Charismatic 11
Where the churches are

District of Columbia cities with the most listings

District of Columbia counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for District of Columbia (DC) 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 District of Columbia directory, and dataset licensing.