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

How many churches are in Louisiana?

Louisiana has 7,372 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 465 cities and towns. 143 listings are verified, 7,200 include a phone number, and 1,516 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 6,599 congregations of 120 religious bodies in Louisiana, with 2,948,928 reported adherents across 64 counties. 55 Louisiana church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 4 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

7,372
Directory listings
6,599
2020 Census congregations
2,948,928
2020 Census adherents
55
NRHP churches
LA capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Louisiana (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 538 1,248,106
Southern Baptist Convention 1,633 648,734
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,205 357,456
United Methodist Church 457 128,108
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 278 67,518
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 118 61,997
Assemblies of God 206 45,773
Full Gospel Christian Assemblies International 64 36,710
Jehovah's Witnesses 137 32,914
Church of God in Christ 140 32,116
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 55 29,097
Muslim Estimate 29 24,732
Episcopal Church 89 23,922
Churches of Christ 217 22,833
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. 8 22,756
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Largest traditions in the Louisiana directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 3,187
Catholic 764
Non-Denominational 549
Methodist 536
Church of God 256
Pentecostal 228
United Methodist 225
Church of Christ 198
Assemblies of God 197
Church of God in Christ 119
Presbyterian 115
Episcopal 112
Lutheran 84
Seventh Day Adventist 80
Apostolic 71
Where the churches are

Louisiana cities with the most listings

Louisiana counties

Sources and method

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