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How many churches in your town?
#41
RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(January 28, 2015 at 4:44 pm)Drich Wrote: according to the yellow pages there are almost 1300 churches in Orlando.

It's not considred the evangelical capital of the country for nothing.

I saw Cradle of Filth play there. Very nice.
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#42
RE: How many churches in your town?
My little town in the US has 50,000 people last I checked.
We have a church on every corner it seems. I think most of them are virtually empty on Sundays. We couldn't fill-up all these churches - even if we had 100% attendance. I suspect the churches stay open so the landowner can avoid paying property taxes until the lot is sold to a developer.

According to churchfinder.com we have 63 churches (1 per 800 residents):
26 Baptist
8 Catholic
4 Lutheran
4 Methodist
3 Episcopal
8 "Spirit Filled"
10 "Other"

We also have a 2 synagogues and 1 mosque.
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#43
RE: How many churches in your town?
I don't know about my town, but in the suburb I currently live in there are at least four churches and a Buddhist temple.

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#44
RE: How many churches in your town?
about 2 or 3 all the others are closed and or being torn down and converted.
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#45
RE: How many churches in your town?
Nebraska...Many. BRB

Edit: Lincoln NE, I'm coming up with 325.
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#46
RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 7:18 pm)Spooky Wrote: Edit: Lincoln NE, I'm coming up with 325.

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#47
RE: How many churches in your town?
I think my town may be near the top of the list for church density.

Population: 5800.

Total churches/religious orgs: 21.

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#48
RE: How many churches in your town?
416. According to church angel. I find that plausible. Population 300,000

Edit, that was Christian. In the yellow pages I found three mosques, five synagogues, and one Buddhist temple.
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#49
RE: How many churches in your town?
Holy crap. Imagine all the homeless shelters you could build on all this real estate. But no... That might be something Jebus would do.
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#50
RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 10:34 am)Xeno Wrote: Recently I noticed how many churches we have around.

In any of the bigger cities there are something like 4 churches per district. In my hometown of something like 20,000 people there are 3 churches. A nearby town of 125,000 people has 6 churches. This seems excessive to me. I also can't seem to find the logic behind it. Wouldn't it make more sense to have one church per town instead of multiple which always fight with each other for parishinoers?

I'd like to know if this is a local phenomenon or is it common for christians everywhere. So, how many churches in your hometown?

I live in a town in the north west of England, population 103,544
there are 29 mosques
We have about the same number of Churches I think, maybe more.

I can see why they would have that many though, a lot of people who go to church are pretty old (like a lot of people in my family) and they don't want to have to walk far, so to have one church in one location might be really far for some people to get to.
Plus a lot of them are tiny churches, with weird denominations, some of them just look like little scary buildings the type where you expect some sort of David Koresh style cult to begin.


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