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Countries With The Highest Number Of Churches 2024: Top 12

By Edeh Samuel Chukwuemeka ACMC

 

Countries With The Highest Number Of Churches: Our daily lives require the practice of religion. Its world is varied, with many nations, leaders, and prayers. To link “lost souls” with God and foster faith in their hearts, however, is still the target purpose of religious organizations. So a church was erected to collect and aid these wandering souls in developing their newfound religion.

Every nation around the globe has a church, which serves as a place of worship. Christians attend church to worship God and His works as well as to honor God. Additionally, they present Thanksgiving offerings to the Lord at the church, which is also the location of sacrifices and tithe giving.

The Duras-Europas church in Syria was established between 233 and 256, making it the earliest known church. According to speculation, it was a typical household residence that had been transformed for worship.

With one-third of the world’s population, Christianity is currently the religion that is practiced the most commonly. The types of churches nowadays are very diverse. Basilica, Pentecostal, cathedral, pilgrimage, conventual, and collegiate are some of the different kinds of churches. Catholic, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, or Eastern Orthodox cathedrals are the norm.

Because of their popularity and prevalence over the world, churches are a fascinating subject to research, especially when you consider which nations have churches and which do not. Therefore, in this post, we’ll focus on the nations having the most churches.

Top 12 Countries With The Highest Number Of Churches 2024

1. The Vatican City: In terms of population, Vatican City is not even close to being one of Europe’s largest countries– it is one of the smallest. If you want to see the country with the most churches, your best chance is to go directly to Vatican City. It has considerably more churches than any other country on the planet.

The Vatican has around 1700 churches, making it the country with the most churches per capita. Vatican City, located in Rome, Italy, has a population of roughly 1000 people and is regarded as one of the most powerful governments in the world.

2. Rwanda: Rwanda has a Christian population of 93.6%, with Roman Catholicism being the biggest Christian religion in the country.

Rwanda is the second-lowest country in Africa and the fourth-smallest on the continent, with an estimated 11 million people—but only approximately 1 million of them are Christians. That implies there are three times as many churches as citizens!

Rwanda’s history is as interesting as its religious makeup: Some Westerners sometimes referred to it as “the Jerusalem” of Africa due to its huge population of Catholics and Protestants who had left neighboring Burundi; when violence erupted between Christians and Muslims there in 1967’s “Year Zero.”

3. Malawi: Malawi has the highest number of churches per capita, with one church for every 132 people. The country also boasts a high density of churches per square mile, with a total of 10,000 churches dispersed over its area. When compared to other places of worship and monuments, the quantity of churches is staggering: there are over 2 million in Africa and 4 million worldwide…

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