Temples, Shrines, Mosques, and Churches

One of America's greatest strengths is our diversity of faith traditions. New research suggests we're getting stronger every day.

• 85 percent of Christian congregations have a social ministry.

• LA has the world's greatest variety of Buddhist communities.
• 30 percent of American Muslims belong to the Nation of Islam.
• American Muslims outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, or Jews.
• 45 percent of Christian churches have ecumenical worship.
• Detroit is the center of urban Islam.
• The first Hindu society in the U.S. was founded in 1894.
• 8 percent of Christian congregations have interfaith ministries.

  Compiled from research at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and The Pluralism Project.