Getting to Church Without a Car in Miami: 411 Congregations Near Mapped Transit Stops

Miami has 411 churches with at least one mapped transit stop within a quarter mile, which is 78.4 percent of the 524 Miami congregations in the Churches List directory. The data captures a layered network: Metrobus stops dominate the counts, with Metrorail and the free downtown Metromover adding the densest clusters.

Baptist congregations lead the transit-reachable count at 72, followed by Catholic parishes at 49 and Non-Denominational churches at 46. Seventh Day Adventist congregations hold an unusually strong 31, a Miami signature found in no other city in this series. The best-connected building in the data is Trinity Cathedral, the Episcopal seat on the bay side of downtown, with 34 mapped stops anchored by the Omni Terminal and Arsht Metromover station; First United Methodist Church of Miami Downtown follows on Biscayne Boulevard with 32.

Which Miami churches sit closest to transit?

The table lists the 60 Miami congregations with the most mapped stops within a quarter mile, of 411 total with at least one. Stop names come from OpenStreetMap; sort by any column.

The transit-reachable Miami churches on the map

Riding to church in Miami: what to check before Sunday

Miami transit favors downtown and the rail spine. Three checks before a Sunday trip:

• Use the Metromover for downtown churches. It is free, it runs on Sunday, and Trinity Cathedral and First United Methodist both sit within its loop; for these churches the stop count translates directly into easy access.
• Check Metrobus Sunday headways outside downtown. Many routes that produce mapped stops in residential Miami run every 40 to 60 minutes on Sunday mornings.
• Plan for heat and afternoon rain. A quarter-mile walk in Miami in summer argues for the closest stop, not the busiest one; the map above shows both.

How the transit data was mapped

Stop locations come from OpenStreetMap, collected by the directory's nightly enrichment pass: every stop node within roughly 400 meters (a quarter mile) of a church building counts as a mapped stop. 411 of 524 Miami listings have at least one as of June 11, 2026. A mapped stop does not guarantee Sunday service on that route; check the transit agency's schedule before traveling. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: Tampa's 325 transit-reachable churches covers the state's other big transit map, Florida's 956 Church of God congregations maps the state's strongest Pentecostal tradition, and the Jacksonville church directory guide profiles Florida's largest city by area. The Miami city page lists all 524 Miami congregations.