Alabama's 75 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places

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.

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.