Pennsylvania's 56 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places

56 Pennsylvania churches stand on the National Register of Historic Places among the 17,007 congregations in the state's directory, and 19 of them — a full third — are in Philadelphia County, the densest county concentration in this series. The earliest is Gloria Dei, Old Swedes' Church, listed October 15, 1966 with the register's founding cohort; the congregation dates to 1677 and the building to 1700, among the oldest church buildings in continuous use in America.

Allegheny County and Pittsburgh hold 7 listings, Bucks County 5. The list spans the state's extraordinary religious range: colonial Anglican and Swedish Lutheran sanctuaries, fieldstone Quaker meetinghouses, and the onion-domed Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches of the anthracite towns.

The complete list of Pennsylvania churches on the National Register

The table lists all 56 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania churches enter the National Register?

Pennsylvania front-loaded harder than any state in this series: 29 church listings in the 1970s, more than half the total, as Philadelphia's bicentennial-era surveys swept the colonial inventory onto the register. After a quiet 1990s and 2000s (4 listings combined), the 2010s brought a revival with 11, much of it documenting Black church history and industrial-town parishes.

Which Pennsylvania 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 (17,007 Pennsylvania congregations as of June 11, 2026) against the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database by building location and name. 56 matches hold as of the snapshot date; the earliest Pennsylvania church listing dates to 1966. 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: the Philadelphia guide covers the county holding a third of this list, Pennsylvania's 1,792 Catholic parishes and 872 Presbyterian congregations map the living traditions, and New Jersey's 76 register-listed churches sits across the Delaware. The Pennsylvania state page lists all 17,007 congregations.