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The Map of Faith in the USA

One of the largest open, interactive maps of American churches: explore where people worship, in which denomination, and how faith is distributed across all 50 states.

212,259churches mapped
50+DCstates
14,600+cities
13denominations

Interactive map

Each dot is a church, colored by denomination. Zoom in to explore your town. (Map shows a representative sample of the full dataset for performance; full 212,259-record dataset available as CSV below.)

Christian / non-denominational Baptist Methodist Catholic Lutheran Other

A story of a Protestant landscape

What the map and the survey tell together.

How Americans identify (Pew Research, 2023-24)

Christian (total)62%
— Protestant40%
— Catholic19%
Religiously unaffiliated~29%

Christian identity fell from 78% (2007) to 62%, but Pew finds the decline has leveled off since ~2019. Source: Pew Research Center, 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

The churches on the ground (EI map)

Christian / non-denom.60.7%
Baptist15.5%
Methodist5.9%
Catholic5.6%
Lutheran3.2%
Other9.1%
Catholics are 19% of Americans but Catholic parishes are only 5.6% of the church buildings on the map — because Catholic parishes are fewer and larger. Protestant and non-denominational congregations, by contrast, are many, smaller and spread across the whole country — which is why they dominate the physical landscape of American faith.

Where the churches are

Top 10 states by number of mapped churches.

Georgia12,873
California12,251
North Carolina12,150
Alabama11,637
Ohio10,438
Tennessee10,182
Virginia9,787
Texas9,699
Pennsylvania9,132
Florida9,122

The "Bible Belt" (Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee) leads in church density — consistent with Pew's regional findings.

Methodology & sources

Religious-identity figures come from the Pew Research Center, 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (36,908 respondents). The church-location layer is an open dataset georeferenced by EncuentraIglesias from OpenStreetMap and public sources — 212,259 churches with verified coordinates across the 50 states + DC.

Honest scope: this is not a complete census of every U.S. church — the country has more congregations than are mapped here. It is one of the largest open, georeferenced samples available; the denomination percentages describe the churches in the dataset, not the full national total. For population-level religious identity, the source is Pew Research.

Updated: June 2026. Data license: attribution to EncuentraIglesias.com + OpenStreetMap.

For journalists & media

This map is free to cite and embed — copy this code as-is; it already includes the attribution link, nothing else to add:

<iframe src="https://encuentraiglesias.com/map-of-faith-usa/embed" width="100%" height="520" style="border:0;border-radius:16px" loading="lazy" title="The Map of Faith in the USA"></iframe> <p style="font:13px/1.4 sans-serif;color:#555">Source: <a href="https://encuentraiglesias.com/map-of-faith-usa">The Map of Faith in the USA — EncuentraIglesias.com</a></p>

How to cite: "The Map of Faith in the USA", EncuentraIglesias.com (2026), with data from Pew Research's 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

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