Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

Religious Communities in Greater Philadelphia

The following list is of religious communities that includes links to each religious community’s houses of worship in the Philadelphia region. This list may be incomplete, so please email us if there is a religious community or a house of worship you would like added to the list. Thank you!

• Baha’i
• Buddhist
• Christian-American Baptist ***
• Christian-American Methodist Episcopal (AME)
• Christian-American Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion
• Christian-Catholic-Latin rite
• Christian-Catholic-Ukrainian rite
• Christian-Episcopal
• Christian-Evangelical Lutheran
• Christian-Greek Orthodox
• Christian-Mennonite
• Christian-Mormon
• Christian-Non-denominational
• Christian-Orthodox
• Christian-Presbyterian
• Christian-Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Christian-Seventh Day Adventist
• Christian-Southern Baptist
• Christian-United Church of Christ
• Christian-The United Methodist Church
• Hindu/Jain (Samarpan Hindu Temple)
• Jewish-Conservative
• Jewish-Humanist (Shir Shalom)
• Jewish-Orthodox ***
• Jewish-Reform (from the Union for Reform Judaism website)
• Jewish-Reconstructionist
• Jewish-Renewal (P’nai Or)
• Muslim
• Muslim-Ismaili
• Scientologist
• Sikh
• Sufi (The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship)
• Sufi (Sufi Order of Greater Philadelphia)
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan/Pagan
• Zoroastrians

***This link leads to a search page in which you must enter in the area you would like to find churches, i.e. Philadelphia, PA.

 

Demographics of Religious Communities

Estimated Demographics of Religious Communities in the Five County Region
(Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia)

Religious Community	Number of Congregations	Number of Adherents*
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church**	14	10,325
American Baptist Churches in the USA	160	70,995
Baha'i	5	745
Catholic (Latin Rite)	313	1,426,641
Episcopal Church	173	57,449
Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America	177	101,377
Friends (Quakers)	68	8,893
Orthodox Christian Churches***	25	10,600
Jewish Estimate****	78	225,000
Mennonite Church USA	81	13,765
Muslim Estimate	36	57,625
Presbyterian Church (USA)	179	71,994
Sikh	1	2,000
Ukrainian Catholic Church		68,000 +
United Church of Christ	92	33,643
The United Methodist Church	224	86,679
Total	1,629	2,245,731

Source: Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). (2002). Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Retrieved April 3, 2006 from the Association of Religion Data Archives: http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/

*Note: Definition of Adherents-The number of children and members (the term members refers to adults only) of a congregation.

**Note: The numbers for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches are from 1990 because the source document did not have data for this group from 2000.

***Note: Data on Orthodox churches in the five-county area came from the Office of the Vicar, Russian Orthodox Church.

****Note: The number of Jewish congregations was gathered from the 2007-08 Guide to Jewish Philadelphia.

+Note: Number indicates membership in a five state area.