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

How many churches are in Missouri?

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.

8,687
Directory listings
9,057
2020 Census congregations
2,979,494
2020 Census adherents
38
NRHP churches
MO capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Missouri (2020 US Religion Census)

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
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Largest traditions in the Missouri directory

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
Where the churches are

Missouri cities with the most listings

Missouri counties

Sources and method

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.