Missouri has 8,687 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 761 cities and towns. 154 listings are verified, 8,460 include a phone number, and 2,696 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 9,057 congregations of 193 religious bodies in Missouri, with 2,979,494 reported adherents across 115 counties. 38 Missouri church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 3 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 494 | 769,057 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 1,957 | 636,327 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 829 | 359,974 |
| United Methodist Church | 710 | 202,124 |
| Assemblies of God | 464 | 127,475 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 297 | 118,989 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 231 | 79,178 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 156 | 72,525 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 300 | 64,934 |
| Muslim Estimate | 51 | 53,443 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 188 | 39,628 |
| Churches of Christ | 406 | 37,996 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | 285 | 36,591 |
| United Church of Christ | 136 | 29,013 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 50 | 27,650 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 2,196 |
| Non-Denominational | 941 |
| Catholic | 616 |
| Methodist | 605 |
| Christian | 517 |
| Assemblies of God | 428 |
| Lutheran | 399 |
| United Methodist | 385 |
| Church of Christ | 328 |
| Church of God | 284 |
| Presbyterian | 238 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 190 |
| Pentecostal | 176 |
| United Church of Christ | 143 |
| Community | 127 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Missouri (MO) 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 Missouri directory, and dataset licensing.