Baltimore, MD

Finding a Church in Baltimore: 827 Congregations Sorted by Tradition and Neighborhood

14 minute read Churches List editorial desk

Red-brick baltimore rowhouse street with a white-steepled church at the corner, rendered in stipple ink with sepia wash.
Red-brick baltimore rowhouse street with a white-steepled church at the corner, rendered in stipple ink with sepia wash.

Baltimore's directory counts 827 congregations. The guide below sorts every tradition, charts the city's row-house parishes, and gives a newcomer a defensible shortlist.

827congregations inside Baltimore
41distinct traditions represented
230listings with a church website

Baltimore holds 827 Christian congregations in the Churches List directory, packed into 45 ZIP codes of rowhouse fabric. The city's church density is corner-lot density: Baltimore congregations historically took the same 20-foot lots as the houses around them, which is why the directory shows a church for roughly every thousand residents.

Baptist congregations dominate the count at 219 listings, the product of the Great Migration and of Baltimore's position as the first major industrial city north of Virginia. Non-Denominational churches follow at 89, then Catholic parishes at 72, the inheritance of the oldest Catholic diocese in the United States, erected in Baltimore in 1789.

Which traditions have the most churches in Baltimore?

Baltimore's 827 listings span 41 traditions. After the Baptist (219), Non-Denominational (89), and Catholic (72) blocks, the directory counts 50 Methodist congregations, 49 Church of God congregations, and 46 Lutheran congregations, the last tracing the city's large 19th-century German settlement in Southeast Baltimore. The bars below give every tradition; each label links to the tradition's full Baltimore list in the directory.

Congregations by tradition, Baltimore (June 11, 2026)

Baptist Churches219
Non-Denominational89
Catholic72
Methodist50
Church of God49
Lutheran46
Episcopal25
Church of Christ23
Pentecostal21
Christian21
Seventh Day Adventist21
Presbyterian19

Which Baltimore churches hold National Register of Historic Places listings?

1 Baltimore church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings as of June 11, 2026. The register-listed congregations in this directory include Zion Lutheran Church (listed 2011).

A sortable selection of Baltimore churches by tradition

The table below holds 60 of Baltimore's 827 congregations, selected for record completeness: register-listed buildings first, then congregations with verified details and working websites. The Baltimore city page lists every congregation.

60 selected congregations of 827 listed in Baltimore
ChurchTraditionStreetZIPRecords
Zion Lutheran ChurchLutheran400 East Lexington Street21202National Register
Advent ChurchNon-Denominational1301 South Charles Street21230website
Apostolic Bible Study ChurchApostolic250408 Garrison Boulevard21216website
Arlington Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches3030 North Rolling Road21244website
Assembly of Healing Hope InternationalNon-DenominationalLive.Aohhchurch.Org21225website
Baltimore Chinese Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches4016 West Overlea Avenue21206website
Baltimore Christ United Church of ChristUnited Church of Christ1308 Beason St21298website
Baltimore City ChurchSeventh Day Adventist1223 W Pratt St21223website
Baltimore First United ChurchUnited Church of Christ1728 Eastern Ave21298website
Baltimore Grace United Church of ChristUnited Church of Christ1404 S Charles St21298website
Baltimore HeritageUnited Church of Christ3106 Liberty Heights Ave21298website
Baltimore Saint John'sUnited Church of Christ1000 S Rolling Rd21250website
Baltimore Saint Mark'sUnited Church of Christ1805 Wickes Ave21298website
Baltimore Saint MatthewUnited Church of Christ3400 Norman Ave21298website
Baltimore Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchSeventh Day Adventist5100 Edmondson Ave21229website
Baltimore United Evangelical ChurchUnited Church of Christ3200 Dillon St21298website
Basilica of the AssumptionCatholic408 N Charles St21201website
Berean Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches5200 Denmore Avenue21215website
Berea Seventh-Day Adventist Church - BostonSeventh Day Adventist108 Seaver St21211website
Berea Temple of Seventh-Day AdventistsSeventh Day Adventist1901 Madison Avenue21217website
Bethel Ame ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal1300 Druid Hill Avenue21217website
Bethel Assembly of GodAssemblies of God7360 Waldman Avenue21219website
Bethel United ChurchNon-Denominational2301 Mayfield Avenue21213website
Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ ApostolicApostolic2301 Mayfield Avenue21213website
Bethesda United Methodist ChurchMethodist6300 Harford Rd21214website
Bethlehem Temple ChurchNon-Denominational3334 Liberty Road21244website
Blessed SacramentCatholic4103 Old York Road21218website
Brooklyn Seventh Day-Adventist ChurchSeventh Day Adventist3533 4Th Street, Brooklyn Md21225website
Brown Memorial Park Ave Presbyterian ChurchEvangelical1316 Park Ave21217website
Byzantine Rite Old Catholic ChurchCatholic12 W. Franklin Street21218website
Calvary Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches3911 Garrison Boulevard21215website
Calvary Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches120 West Pennsylvania Avenue21204website
Calvary Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches7321 Manchester Road21222website
Canaan Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches713 Tessier Street21201website
Carney Assembly of GodAssemblies of God3319 Summit Avenue21234website
Catonsville ImmanuelUnited Church of Christ1905 Edmondson Ave21250website
Central Church of ChristChurch of Christ4301 Woodridge Road21229website
Christ Deliverance ChurchNon-Denominational711 Walnut Avenue21229website
Christ Temple Apostolic ChurchApostolic701 Cherry Hill Road21225website
Church of ChristChurch of Christ530 West University Parkway21210website
Church of Saint Katherine of AlexandriaEpiscopal2001 Division St21217website
Church of Saint Mary the VirginCatholic3121 Walbrook Avenue21216website
Church of the Good ShepherdCatholic1401 Carrollton Avenue21204website
Church of the MessiahNon-Denominational5801 Harford Road21214website
Church of the Redeemed of the LordNon-Denominational4617 York Road21212website
Church of the ResurrectionEpiscopal2900 E Fayette St21224website
Community Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches2311 Garrison Boulevard21216website
Community Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches219 North Mount Street21223website
Davis Memorial Ame ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal2409 Roslyn Avenue21216website
Dorchester Cape Verdean Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchSeventh Day Adventist424 Washington St21241website
Dundalk Church of the BrethrenBrethren2660 Yorkway21222website
East Baltimore Church of GodChurch of God2043 East Baltimore Street21231website
East Boston Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchSeventh Day Adventist28 Paris St21283website
Eastern Assembly of God ChurchAssemblies of God7923 Wise Avenue21222website
Ebenezer Ame ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal20 West Montgomery Street21230website
Ebenezer Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches306 East 23Rd Street21218website
E. Devon Wilford-SaidNon-Denominational1016 Comet Street21202website
Edgemere Baptist ChurchBaptist Churches7601 North Point Road21219website
Edmondson Heights Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchSeventh Day Adventist810 Walnut Avenue21229website
Elder Jerome SpannChurch of God in Christ5015 Gwynn Oak21207website

Where Baltimore's churches stand: the map

The map shows the 60 selected congregations from the table above.

How to choose a church in Baltimore: a practical checklist

816 of Baltimore's 827 listings carry a phone number and 230 carry a website. A workable shortlist method:

  • Filter the table to a tradition, then check street addresses against the map: Baltimore neighborhoods change character block by block, and the church two streets over may belong to a different world than the one on the map pin next door.
  • Call before the first visit; rowhouse congregations relocate more often than their signage updates.
  • Use the nearest-to-me button if you are choosing on foot. Most of the city's churched corners were built for walking distance.
  • Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page and are usually applied within two business days.

How this guide was assembled

The Churches List directory snapshot of June 11, 2026 records 827 congregations inside Baltimore across 45 ZIP codes. 816 of those listings carry a phone number and 230 carry a website. National Register status comes from the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database; 1 Baltimore churches hold listings. Churches List does not rank congregations: the table sorts alphabetically within record-completeness groups, and the directory applies corrections submitted by churches, usually within two business days, through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: 615 American churches that were online before 2001 includes early Maryland adopters, and the Episcopal Atlantic corridor maps the coastal belt that runs through Maryland. The Maryland state page lists every Maryland church in the directory.