List of churches that are National Historic Landmarks in the United States

This is a very incomplete list of churches and other places of religious function that are U.S. National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in the United States.

A significant proportion of the 2,430 National Historic Landmarks sites in the U.S. are churches.

NHLs that are to be classified

Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall

NHLs that are A.M.E. or A.M.E. Zion churches

• Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma, Alabama
• Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, Philadelphia
• Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church in upstate New York

NHLs that are Baptist churches

• African Meeting House in Boston
• Bethel Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama)
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama
• Mount Zion Baptist Church
• 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
• First Baptist Church (Columbia, South Carolina)

NHLs that were Congregational churches

• Harpswell Meetinghouse, in Maine
• Rockingham Meeting House, in Vermont (church ceased meeting in 1819)
• First Congregational Church of Albany, NY, National Register listing as of 2014 ^[1]

NHLs that are Congregational Christian Churches that did not join the United Church of Christ

• Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (did not join)

NHLs that are Episcopal churches

• Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Alabama
• St. Andrew's Church, Prairieville, Alabama
• St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, National City, California
• Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany, New York
• St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York
• Church of the Ascension, New York, New York
• Grace Church, New York, New York
• St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, New York, New York
• St. George's Episcopal Church, New York, New York
• Trinity Church, New York, New York
• St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, South Carolina

NHLs that are French Protestant Reformed (Huguenot) churches

• Huguenot Church in South Carolina

NHLs that are Greek Orthodox churches

• Church of St. George, Des Moines, Iowa

NHLs that are Jewish synagogues

• Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue, in South Carolina
• Central Synagogue, in NYC
• Eldridge Street Synagogue, in NYC
• Plum Street Temple, Ohio

NHLs that are Latter Day Saint temples

• Kirtland Temple in Ohio

NHLs that are Lutheran churches

• Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis, Minnesota

NHLs that are Muslim mosques

There appear to be none.

(However, Mother Mosque of America in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an NRHP.)

NHLs that are Presbyterian churches

Church	Image	Dates	Location	City, State	Description
Bethesda Presbyterian Church		1822 built 1985 NHL-designated	502 Dekalb Street 34°14′46″N 80°36′19.28″W / 34.24611°N 80.6053556°W / 34.24611; -80.6053556 (Bethesda Presbyterian Church)	Camden, South Carolina	Neoclassical
Downtown Presbyterian Church of Nashville		1816 founded 1848–49 built 1993 NHL-designated		Nashville, Tennessee	Egyptian Revival
Government Street Presbyterian Church		1831 founded 1836–37 built 1992 NHL-designated	300 Government Street 30°41′22″N 88°2′37″W / 30.68944°N 88.04361°W / 30.68944; -88.04361 (Government Street Presbyterian Church)	Mobile, Alabama	Greek Revival
Old Whaler's Church (First Presbyterian Church of Sag Harbor)		1766 founded 1844 built 1994 NHL-designated	44 Union Street 40°59′50″N 72°17′38.66″W / 40.99722°N 72.2940722°W / 40.99722; -72.2940722 (Old Whaler's Church)	Sag Harbor, New York	Egyptian Revival
St. John's Presbyterian Church (Berkeley, California)		1910 built 1974 NHL-designated	2640 College Ave.	Berkeley, California	American Craftsman

NHLs that were shared by various Protestant churches

• Round Church (Richmond, Vermont), in Richmond, Vermont
• First Baptist Church of Ventura, in Ventura, California

NHLs that are Quaker meetinghouses

• Old Quaker Meeting House (Flushing, Queens), in NYC
• Race Street Friends Meetinghouse, in Philadelphia
• Buckingham Friends Meeting House, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
• Merion Friends Meeting House, in Pennsylvania

NHLs that are Roman Catholic churches

• Mission San Xavier del Bac, Arizona
• Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California
• Mission San José, Fremont, California
• La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California
• Mission San Fernando Rey de España, Los Angeles, California
• Mission San Antonio de Padua, Monterey County, California
• Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside, California
• Mission San Diego de Alcalá, San Diego, California
• Mission San Francisco de Asís, San Francisco, California
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, San Gabriel, California
• Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California
• Mission San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel, California
• Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
• Mission Santa Inés, Solvang, California
• Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
• Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia, Illinois
• San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church, Acoma, New Mexico
• San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
• St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York
• Holy Family Cathedral, Rectory and School, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Alamo Mission in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

NHLs that are Russian Orthodox churches

• Church of the Holy Ascension, Alaska
• Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church, Alaska
• St. Michael's Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)

NHLs that are Unitarian Universalist churches

• First Unitarian Society of Madison, in Wisconsin
• Unity Temple, in Illinois
• Old Ship Church in Massachusetts

NHLs that are United Church of Christ (U.C.C.) churches

• Circular Congregational Church and Parish House, Charleston, South Carolina
• Old South Church, Boston
• Old South Meeting House in Boston

NHLs that are United Methodist churches

• Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Tulsa, Oklahoma

NHL churches in New York State

There are twenty churches that are NHLs in New York State: The 9 upstate or on Long Island are:

1. one of the three buildings in Cobblestone Historic District,
2. Dutch Reformed Church (Newburgh, New York),
3. Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow),
4. First Presbyterian Church (Sag Harbor, New York),
5. Harriet Tubman's Thompson AME Zion Church,
6. the Indian Castle Church in Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District,
7. St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo),
8. St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York),
9. Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall and

11 in NYC are:

1. Central Synagogue,
2. Church of the Ascension,
3. Eldridge Street Synagogue,
4. Grace Church, New York,
5. Old Quaker Meeting House,
6. Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,
7. St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church,
8. Trinity Church, New York,
9. St. George's Episcopal Church,
10. St. Patrick's Cathedral,
11. St. Paul's Chapel).

References

1. ↑ http://albanyfirstcongregational.org/our-history/register-of-historic-places/