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

How many churches are in New York?

New York has 12,739 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 1,359 cities and towns. 291 listings are verified, 12,408 include a phone number, and 4,080 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 13,827 congregations of 221 religious bodies in New York, with 10,347,472 reported adherents across 62 counties. 288 New York church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 41 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

12,739
Directory listings
13,827
2020 Census congregations
10,347,472
2020 Census adherents
288
NRHP churches
NY capital N
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Largest religious bodies in New York (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 1,451 6,191,464
Muslim Estimate 343 724,475
Orthodox Judaism 346 588,620
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,338 556,698
United Methodist Church 1,178 239,523
Jehovah's Witnesses 690 163,918
American Baptist Churches in the USA 499 141,304
Episcopal Church 625 124,423
Hindu Temples 47 105,668
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 358 98,931
Seventh-day Adventist Church 396 98,501
Reform Judaism 95 94,354
Assemblies of God 550 92,604
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 142 83,293
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 595 77,670
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Largest traditions in the New York directory

Tradition Listings
Catholic 2,264
Baptist Churches 1,481
Non-Denominational 1,231
Methodist 1,208
Episcopal 754
Lutheran 572
United Methodist 544
Presbyterian 518
Evangelical 416
Seventh Day Adventist 382
Church of God 304
United Church of Christ 278
Assemblies of God 240
Pentecostal 224
Christian 201
Where the churches are

New York cities with the most listings

New York counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for New York (NY) 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 · Michigan · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the New York directory, and dataset licensing.