Faith in Central Florida

874 Churches, Synagogues, Temples, or "other".

That's the count I come to while reviewing the Central Florida Yellow Pages as to the phone numbers listed according to the different Organized religion groupings.

I found 109 different "types" of organized religious groups. The overwhelming majority were Christian (although I'm really not sure what category "Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches" falls into). The largest single group of churches was "Non-Denomenational" (13% of the total), and the 2nd largest being Baptist (7%), and 3rd being Pentecostal (also 7%). Seventh Day Adventists ranked 7th (3%), and all other specific faith groups being 3% or lower of the total. If one were to group all the fractions/subsets of "Baptist" together, it would account for 20% of the total.

I had no idea there were so many different kinds of churches in my area. Of particular curiosity to me was the "Messianic" church, where a phone listing included "Massage Therapy Health & Relaxation Center". What's up with THAT?

Here's the list of Church groups (per the Yellow Pages), and the number of listings for each group:


AME
3
AME Zion
1
Adventists
1
African Methodist Episcopal
3
AOH Church of God
1
Apostolic
19
Aseemblies of God
28
Bahai
1
Baptist
60
Baptist ABA
6
Baptist American
1
Baptist Conservative
2
Baptist Free Will
3
Baptist Fundamental
2
Baptist General
1
Baptist General Conference
1
Baptist Independent
31
Baptist Missionary
14
Baptist Reformed
1
Baptist Southern
56
bible
2
bible independent
1
brethren
2
Buddhist
2
Catholic
18
Catholic-Latin Rite
1
Catholic-Roman
5
Catholic-Ukranian
2
Charismatic
2
Christian
21
Disciples of Christ
7
Methodist Episcopal
1
Christian & Missionary Alliance
10
Christian Science
3
Church of Christ
25
Church of Christ Holiness
2
Church of Christ in Christian Union
1
Church of God
21
Church of God Anderson Indiana
2
Church of God Cleveland Tennesse
6
Church of God in Christ
5
Church of God- Non-Pentecostal
1
Church of God of Prophecy
2
Church of God Pentecostal
2
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
1
Church of the Nazarene
2
Community
6
Congregational
3
Covenant
2
Eastern Orthodox
2
Eckankar
1
Episcopal
20
Evangelical
4
Evangelical Covenant
1
Evangelical Free Church
1
Foursquare Gospel
3
Free Methodist
2
Full Gospel
6
Greek Orthodox
2
Hindu
1
Holiness
5
IFCA International
1
Independent
8
Interdenominational
13
International Pentecostal Holines
1
Islamic
5
Jehovah's Witnesses
13
Latter Day Saints
6
Lutheran
18
Lutheran ELCA
1
Lutheran Missouri Synod
10
Lutheran Wisconsin
2
Messianic
2
Methodist
8
Methodist Episcopal
4
Methodist Free
2
Methodist United
22
metropolitan Community
1
Missionar Baptist ABA
1
Nazarene
14
Non-Denominational
113
Orthodox
4
Pentecostal
57
Pentecostal Church of God
1
Petecostal Holiness
13
Presbyterian
18
Presbyterian-orthodox
2
Presbyterian-PCA
8
Presbyterian-Reformed
3
Presbyterian(USA)
16
Primitive Baptist
3
Reformed
1
Reformed in America
1
Religious Science
5
Reorganized LDS
1
Seventh Day Adventists
27
Seventh Day Pentecostal
1
Spiritualist
1
Unitarian Universalist
2
United Church of Christ
5
Unted Pentecostal
3
Unity
3
Universal Fellowship
1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
1
Vineyard
1
Wesleyan
1
Synagogues - Jewish
7
Synagogues - Messianic
1
Synagogues - Reform
1