Religion in Atlanta

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Religion in Atlanta (2014)[1]

  
No religion (20%)
(1%)

Religion in Atlanta, while historically centered on

Presbyterian Churches, the Tamil Church Atlanta, Telugu Church, Hindi Church, Malayalam Church, Ethiopian, Chinese, and many more traditional ethnic religious groups. Large non-Christian faiths are present in the form of Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism. Overall, there are over 1,000 places of worship within Atlanta.[2]

Christianity

Protestant

Protestant Christian faiths are well represented in Atlanta as the city is located in the Bible Belt,[3] the city historically being a major center for traditional Southern denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church (USA)
.

African-American Baptist congregations such as

Civil Rights Movement
in the 1950s and 1960s.

Atlanta is also the see of the

Atlanta serves as headquarters for several regional church bodies also. The Southeastern Synod of the

black elite including Andrew Young, for its famous minister Henry H. Proctor and for President Taft having visited in 1898.[5]

Traditional African-American denominations such as the National Baptist Convention and the African Methodist Episcopal Church are strongly represented in the area. These churches have several seminaries that form the Interdenominational Theological Center complex in the Atlanta University Center.

Protestant megachurches

Well-known

English Avenue, Atlanta. Atlanta ranks second in megachurches behind Houston.[9]

Catholic

In contrast to some other

Eastern Orthodox

The city hosts the

Greek Orthodox
Annunciation Cathedral, the see of the Metropolis of Atlanta and its bishop, Alexios. Other Orthodox Christian jurisdictions represented by parishes in the Atlanta area include the Antiochian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church in America.

Other Religious Groups

The headquarters for The

Salvation Army's United States Southern Territory is located in Atlanta.[16]
The denomination has eight churches, numerous social service centers, and youth clubs located throughout the Atlanta area.

The city has a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia called the Atlanta Georgia Temple.

Other faiths

Metro Atlanta's Jewish community is estimated to include 120,000 persons in 61,300 households.

Toco Hills neighborhoods inside the Perimeter, as well as in Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Alpharetta
in the North metro area.

The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta in adjacent Lilburn, Georgia is currently the largest Hindu temple in the world outside of India.[19] It is one of approximately 15 Hindu temples in the metro Atlanta area, along with 7 other Hindu temples in Georgia serving nearly 100,000 Hindus in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Perry, Savannah, Columbus, Rome/Cartersville and other remote centers.

There are an estimated 75,000

mosques. The largest mosque, Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta, is located on 14th Street in Midtown Atlanta.[21] Muslims constitute 1.3% per cent of the population, giving Atlanta the sixth largest Muslim proportion in the country.[22]

Buddhist centers and temples in Metro Atlanta include the Atlanta Buddhist Center in

Tibetan Buddhist Drepung Loseling Monastery in Brookhaven, associated with Emory University and where the Dalai Lama has spoken.[23]

Jesus Junction

In local popular culture, Jesus Junction is the nickname for the intersection of Peachtree Street, East Wesley Road and West Wesley Road in the Buckhead area of the city, at which three churches are located. The churches at the intersection are:

Notes

  1. ^ These include St. John Chrysostom Melkite Catholic Church; St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church in the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn; Epiphany Byzantine Catholic Church; St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church; and Holy Family Knanaya Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Knanaya)

References

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  4. ^ "The Episcopal Church in Georgia". The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Archived from the original on December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  5. . Retrieved August 28, 2017 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "In Pictures: America's 10 Biggest Megachurches", Forbes, June 26, 2009
  7. ^ "EMS Case Study First Baptist Church of Woodstock" (PDF). Dea.com. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  8. ^ "Creflo Dollar Ministerial Association". Archived from the original on December 26, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  9. ^ a b Mckinley, James C.; Brown, Robbie (September 25, 2010). "Sex Scandal Threatens a Georgia Pastor's Empire". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  10. ^ "Office of Black Catholic Ministry :: Archdiocese of Atlanta". January 12, 2008. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  11. ^ Nelson, Andrew (January 1, 2009). "Parishes Receive Data As Catholic Population Surges". The Georgia Bulletin. The Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta. p. 10.
  12. ^ a b "Project aims to bring Catholics back to church | ajc.com". Archived from the original on December 12, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  13. ^ "Business to Business Magazine: Not just for Sunday anymore". Btobmagazine.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  14. ^ "Archdiocese of Atlanta Statistics". Archatl.com. Archived from the original on September 17, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  15. ^ Nelson, Andrew (September 6, 2007). "Catholic Population Officially Leaps To 650,000". The Georgia Bulletin. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
  16. ^ "About The Salvation Army". The Salvation Army. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
  17. ^ "Jewish People Around the World". Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  18. ^ "Jewish Community Centennial Study 2006". Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Archived from the original on August 20, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2007.
  19. ^ Goodman, Brenda (July 5, 2007). "In a Suburb of Atlanta, a Temple Stops Traffic". The New York Times. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
  20. ^ "Mosques in Atlanta Georgia - Find mosques near you". Elevated Muslims. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  21. ^ "Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta". Archived from the original on October 3, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
  22. ^ "America's Muslim Capitals". The Daily Beast. August 10, 2010. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  23. ^ "Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies". Drepung.org. Retrieved August 28, 2017.

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