Tennessee has 10,471 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 497 cities and towns. 215 listings are verified, 10,031 include a phone number, and 1,859 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 13,392 congregations of 176 religious bodies in Tennessee, with 3,844,653 reported adherents across 95 counties. 108 Tennessee 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.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 3,151 | 1,310,341 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 2,497 | 660,498 |
| United Methodist Church | 1,377 | 335,322 |
| Catholic Church | 157 | 275,494 |
| Churches of Christ | 1,404 | 197,908 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 476 | 149,362 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 128 | 73,659 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 355 | 67,360 |
| Church of God in Christ | 154 | 64,054 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 112 | 52,920 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 209 | 50,130 |
| Assemblies of God | 225 | 45,641 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 175 | 44,391 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 241 | 40,500 |
| Muslim Estimate | 43 | 39,745 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 3,574 |
| Methodist | 1,270 |
| Church of Christ | 911 |
| Non-Denominational | 798 |
| Church of God | 550 |
| United Methodist | 461 |
| Presbyterian | 345 |
| African Methodist Episcopal | 248 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 182 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 181 |
| Christian | 179 |
| Catholic | 176 |
| Pentecostal | 175 |
| Episcopal | 146 |
| Evangelical | 145 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Tennessee (TN) 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 Tennessee directory, and dataset licensing.