Alabama
Alabama's 75 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places
75 Alabama churches stand on the National Register of Historic Places, including landmarks of the civil-rights movement. The full mapped state list.
75 Alabama churches in the Churches List directory stand on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's first church listing from this directory came February 15, 1973: First United Methodist Church of Wetumpka, an 1854 Greek Revival sanctuary in the small Coosa River town east of Montgomery.
Jefferson County (Birmingham) holds 21 of the 75 listings, followed by Mobile with 12 and Montgomery with 6. Alabama's register list carries national weight beyond architecture: it includes sanctuaries of the civil-rights movement, where register status documents history made inside the walls as much as the walls themselves.
The complete list of Alabama churches on the National Register
The table lists all 75 Alabama congregations in this directory whose buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings as of June 11, 2026. Click a column to sort; the county menu filters the list.
| Church | City | County | Listed | Tradition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | Wetumpka | Elmore | 1973 | United Methodist |
| Spring Hill Baptist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1973 | Baptist Churches |
| Highland Avenue Baptist Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 1974 | Baptist Churches |
| First Presbyterian Church | Eutaw | Greene | 1974 | Presbyterian |
| Saint John's Episcopal Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 1975 | Episcopal |
| Saint Paul Episcopal Church | Selma | Dallas | 1975 | Episcopal |
| Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church | Auburn | Lee | 1975 | Baptist Churches |
| Valley Creek Presbyterian Church | Selma | Dallas | 1976 | Evangelical |
| First Presbyterian Church | Wetumpka | Elmore | 1976 | Presbyterian |
| Saint Louis Street Baptist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1976 | Baptist Churches |
| Church of Saint Michael & All Angels | Anniston | Calhoun | 1978 | Episcopal |
| First Baptist Church | Selma | Dallas | 1979 | Baptist Churches |
| Birmingham First Cong Christian Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1980 | United Church of Christ |
| Center Street Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1980 | Baptist Churches |
| Randolph Church of Christ | Huntsville | Madison | 1980 | Church of Christ |
| First Presbyterian Church | Jacksonville | Calhoun | 1982 | Presbyterian |
| Highland Avenue Baptist Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 1982 | Baptist Churches |
| First United Methodist Church of Center Point | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1982 | Methodist |
| Siloam Baptist Church Nursery | Marion | Perry | 1982 | Baptist Churches |
| First Presbyterian Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1982 | Presbyterian |
| First Presbyterian Church | Talladega | Talladega | 1983 | Presbyterian |
| Toulminville-Warren Street United Methodist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1984 | Methodist |
| Saint Paul's Episcopal Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1984 | Episcopal |
| First United Methodist Church | Jasper | Walker | 1985 | United Methodist |
| Stone Street Baptist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1985 | Baptist Churches |
| Grace Episcopal Church | Anniston | Calhoun | 1985 | Episcopal |
| Mount Zion Baptist Church | Anniston | Calhoun | 1985 | Baptist Churches |
| Parker Memorial Baptist Church | Anniston | Calhoun | 1985 | Baptist Churches |
| First Missionary Baptist Church | Greenville | Butler | 1986 | Baptist Churches |
| First Presbyterian Church | Greenville | Butler | 1986 | Presbyterian |
| Second Presbyterian Church Us | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1986 | Presbyterian |
| Emanuel Ame Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1987 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| West End Aoh Church of God | Birmingham | Jefferson | 1987 | Church of God |
| First Baptist Church | Bay Minette | Baldwin | 1988 | Baptist Churches |
| Lebanon Chapel Ame Church | Fairhope | Baldwin | 1988 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| New Market Presbyterian Church | New Market | Madison | 1988 | Presbyterian |
| Saint Mark Lutheran Church | Elberta | Baldwin | 1988 | Lutheran |
| Saint Paul's Episcopal Chapel | Magnolia Springs | Baldwin | 1988 | Episcopal |
| Twin Beach Ame Zion Church | Fairhope | Baldwin | 1988 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| First African Baptist Church | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | 1988 | Baptist Churches |
| New Market United Methodist Church | New Market | Madison | 1990 | United Methodist |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1990 | Episcopal |
| Old Ship Ame Zion Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 1991 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| Patriarchal See of St. Stephen (Anglican Rite Roman Catholic Church) | Mobile | Mobile | 1991 | Catholic |
| Patriarchal See of St. Stephen (Anglican Rite Roman Catholic Church) | Mobile | Mobile | 1991 | Catholic |
| Government Street Presbyterian Church | Mobile | Mobile | 1992 | Evangelical |
| Julia Street Memorial United | Boaz | Marshall | 1999 | Non-Denominational |
| Old Sardis Baptist Church | Union Springs | Bullock | 2001 | Baptist Churches |
| Jericho Ame Zion Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 2002 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| Christ First Missionary Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Mount Ararat Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| New Rising Star Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Christ First Missionary Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Christ First Missionary Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| New Shady Grove Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Old Sardis Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Canaan Baptist Church | Bessemer | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| East End Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| First Ebenezer Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Peace Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | Baptist Churches |
| Saint Luke Ame Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| Saint Luke Ame Zion Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2005 | African Methodist Episcopal |
| New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2007 | Baptist Churches |
| Aimwell Baptist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 2008 | Baptist Missionary Association of America |
| Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church | Mobile | Mobile | 2008 | Baptist Churches |
| First Baptist Church | Wetumpka | Elmore | 2008 | Baptist Churches |
| Beulah Missionary Baptist Church | Notasulga | Macon | 2010 | Baptist Churches |
| Tabernacle Baptist Church | Selma | Dallas | 2013 | Baptist Churches |
| Blessed Sacrament Church | Birmingham | Jefferson | 2015 | Catholic |
| Beulah Missionary Baptist Church | Notasulga | Macon | 2016 | Baptist Churches |
| Bethlehem Baptist Church | Valley | Chambers | 2017 | Baptist Churches |
| Northern Heights Presbyterian Church | Selma | Dallas | 2022 | Evangelical |
| Saint Paul Baptist Church | Tuskegee | Macon | 2023 | Baptist Churches |
| First Baptist Church | Montgomery | Montgomery | 2024 | Baptist Churches |
| Harris Temple at Troy | Troy | Pike | 2024 | Non-Denominational |
When did Alabama churches enter the National Register?
Alabama's listings peaked in the 1980s with 28 entries, but the more distinctive feature is the second peak: 19 listings in the 2000s, driven by civil-rights-era thematic nominations and by Mobile's Gulf Coast preservation surveys. The flow has continued with 5 listings in the 2010s and 4 since 2020, so Alabama's register chapter remains open.
Which Alabama counties hold the most register-listed churches?
Where the register-listed churches stand: the map
How this list was assembled
The list joins the Churches List directory (9,976 Alabama congregations as of June 11, 2026) against the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database by building location and name. 75 matches hold as of the snapshot date; the earliest Alabama church listing dates to 1973. A register listing covers the building, not the congregation, and some listed buildings house congregations younger than the walls. Corrections are applied through the corrections page.
Related reading in The Letter: Birmingham's 276 Baptist congregations covers the church landscape of the county that holds 21 of these listings, and Tennessee's 113 register-listed churches continues the story north. The Alabama state page lists all 9,976 Alabama churches.