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

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

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

*Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama)
*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
* 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)

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 Holy Cross (Stateburg, South Carolina)
* Church of the Ascension (New York)
* Episcopal Church of the Nativity (Huntsville, Alabama)
* Grace Church, New York
* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Prairieville, Alabama)
* St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, NYC
*St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
*St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo)
*St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York),
*St. George's Episcopal Church in NYC
* Trinity Church, New York,

NHLs that are French Protestant Reformed (Huguenot) churches

Huguenot Church in South Carolina

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 Muslim mosques

There appear to be none.

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

NHLs that are Presbyterian churches

*First Presbyterian Church (Sag Harbor, New York),
*Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall
*Government Street Presbyterian Church, Mobile, Alabama

NHLs that were shared by various Protestant churches

*Round Church, in Richmond, Vermont

NHLs that are Quaker meetinghouses

*Old Quaker Meeting House, 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 Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside, California
*Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California
*Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia), Illinois
*St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC

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, in 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:
#one of the three buildings in Cobblestone Historic District,
#Dutch Reformed Church (Newburgh, New York),
#Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow),
#First Presbyterian Church (Sag Harbor, New York),
#Harriet Tubman's Thompson AME Zion Church,
#the Indian Castle Church in Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District,
#St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo),
#St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York),
#Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall and 11 in NYC are:
#Central Synagogue,
#Church of the Ascension,
#Eldridge Street Synagogue,
#Grace Church, New York,
#Old Quaker Meeting House,
#Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,
#St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church,
#Trinity Church, New York,
#St. George's Episcopal Church,
#St. Patrick's Cathedral,
#St. Paul's Chapel).


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