New Jersey's 76 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places

76 New Jersey churches in the Churches List directory hold National Register of Historic Places listings. The state's first from this directory's rolls came April 3, 1970: Connecticut Farms Church in Union Township, a 1788 stone sanctuary rebuilt after British troops burned its predecessor during the 1780 Battle of Connecticut Farms.

Essex County (Newark) dominates with 19 register-listed churches, a quarter of the state list, the legacy of Newark's century as an industrial capital that built cathedral-scale sanctuaries in brownstone and granite. Monmouth County follows with 8, then Hudson with 6 and a band of counties at 4 or 5 each.

The complete list of New Jersey churches on the National Register

The table lists all 76 New Jersey 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 New Jersey churches enter the National Register?

New Jersey front-loaded its church listings: 32 entries in the 1970s, the largest first-decade share in this series after South Carolina, followed by 19 in the 1980s. The early pace reflects the state's colonial-church inventory, which had Dutch Reformed and Anglican buildings documented and ready when the register opened. After single-digit decades in the 1990s and 2000s, the 2010s added 10 more.

Which New Jersey 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 (6,318 New Jersey congregations as of June 11, 2026) against the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database by building location and name. 76 matches hold as of the snapshot date; the earliest New Jersey church listing dates to 1970. 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: New York's 306 register-listed churches frames the metropolitan region's register stock, and United Church of Christ congregations in Pennsylvania maps the German Reformed world that built many of New Jersey's oldest stone churches. The New Jersey state page lists all 6,318 New Jersey churches.