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CHURCHES IN TEXAS

TEXAS CHURCHES,
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Texas Painted Churches

  • The Fayette County Painted Churches Tour »
  • Painted Church Tour
  • Ammansville - St. John the Baptist c.1919
  • Dubina - Saints Cyril and Methodius Church
  • High Hill - St. Mary's Catholic Church c.1906
  • Lindsay - Saint Peter's Catholic Church
  • Plantersville - St. Mary's Catholic Church
  • Praha - St. Mary's Church c1892
  • Shiner - Saints Cyril and Methodius Church
  • Wesley - Wesley Brethren Church



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    Featured Articles and Images


    The buildings that appear here were chosen for unique architectural details, some for how they typify their town, region or Texas in general, and some simply because they happen to be the last remaining building of a particular town or community.
    New Sweden
  • New Sweden Evangelical Lutheran Church
    The most photographed church in Texas
  • Hyman
  • Craft Baptist Church 2-2-23

  • Hyman old church & cemetery 1-4-23
  • Perryville Churches 11-14-20
  • Barstow church
  • Barstow First Presbyterian Church 3-1-19


  • Rhineland St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Rhineland - St. Joseph's Catholic Church 12-7-18
  • Peyton
  • Peyton Colony - Mount Horeb Baptist Church Blanco Co 9-10-18
  • Fariview
  • Tuxedo - Fairview Cemetery & Chapel Jones County 8-1-18
  • Mentone
  • Mentone Church & Former Schoolhouse Loving Co 7-27-18
    The oldest building in Loving County
  • Polly
  • Polly's Chapel Bandera Co 6-4-18
  • Ysleta Mission de Corpus Cristo del Sur El Paso Co 6-10-17
  • Powers Chapel
  • Powers Chapel and Cemetery Falls Co 6-1-17
  • Milford
  • Milford - Saint James AME Church Ellis Co 5-24-17
  • Carroll Springs
  • Carroll Springs 5-13-17

  • Beck's Chapel 5-13-17

  • Pickens 5-13-17
  • Pickens
    Pumpville
  • Pumpville Baptist Church 5-11-17

  • St. Francisville - St. Francis Catholic Church 5-1-17
  • St. Francisville
  • La Grange Churches 1-20-17

  • Freyburg Methodist Church 3-9-17
  • Freyburg
    Swiss Alp
  • Fodice - Mount Pleasant CME Church 11-1-16

  • Swiss Alps Churches 8-1-16
  • St. Mary's
  • Saint Mary's Parish

  • Longview - Harmon General Hospital Chapel/Speer Chapel
  • Speer Chapel
    North Chapel
  • Corpus Christi Cathedral

  • Pert - Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church

  • Castell Historic Churches

  • McMahan Chapel

  • Matagorda Historic Churches

  • North Chapel Church



  • Texas Church List

  • Abbott Churches
  • Abilene Churches
  • Ackerly
  • Adamsville United Presbyterian Church
  • Addicks - Bear Creek Methodist Church
  • Addielou - Baptist Church
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Afton Baptist Church
  • Agua Dulce
  • Albany
  • Aledo
  • Aleman - St. Paul's Lutheran Church
  • Alexander Churches
  • Allamoore
  • Allan
  • Allen Chapel AME Church
  • Alleyton
  • Alpine - First Christian Church
  • Alto
  • Anson - Methodist Church
  • Alvarado - Methodist Church
  • Amarillo - The Polk Street United Methodist Church
  • Ambrose Baptist Church
  • Ammansville - St. John the Baptist c.1919
  • Ander
  • Andrews - Methodist Church
  • Anna
  • Annona Churches
  • Antelope Churches
  • Aquilla
  • Arbor
  • Argenta
  • Argo
  • Armstrong Colony - Mt. Olive Baptist Church
  • Arneckeville - Zion Lutheran Church
  • Arp
  • Arthur City
  • Athens
  • Atlas - Cowboy Church
  • Aubrey
  • Austonio
  • Austwell - The Baptist Church
  • Avery
  • Avinger Churches


  • Bailey
  • Bailey's Prairie
  • Bald Prairie
  • Bandera
  • Bandera - Polly's Chapel
  • Bandera - St. Stanislaus Catholic Church
  • Banquete
  • Barry
  • Barstow
  • Bascom - Bascom United Methodist Church
  • Bastrop
  • Bateman
  • Bay City Churches
  • Beasley
  • Beaukiss
  • Beaumont - Built in 1903 as the First Baprist Church -
    Today The Tyrrell Historical Library
  • Beaver Dam
  • Beck's Chapel
  • Bee House - Baptist Church
  • Bellevue
  • Bells
  • Belton - First Baptist Church
  • Ben Franklin
  • Benavides - Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church
  • Berclair
  • Berlin - Eben-Ezer Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Bethany
  • Bethel
  • Big Hill
  • Big Spring - Cemetery Funeral Chapel
  • Big Wells
  • Bigfoot
  • Bippus
  • Bishop Churches
  • Bivins - Baptist Church
  • Black Jack
  • Black Jack - Baptist Church (Cherokee County)
  • Blackjack (Smith County)
  • Blackwell - Baptism
  • Blanconia
  • Blanket Churches
  • Bledsoe
  • Blooming Grove - Methodist Church
  • Bloomington Churches
  • Blue - United Methodist Church
  • Bluegrove
  • Bluff Dale
  • Blum
  • Bogata Churches
  • Boling - United Methodist Church
  • Bolivar - Divine Nature Church
  • Bomarton - St. John's Catholic Church
  • Bon Wier
  • Bonham - First Presbyterian Church
  • Bono - Baptist Church
  • Boxelder- Salem Baptist Church
  • Bradshaw
  • Brady
  • Branchville - 1869 Old Providence Baptist Church
  • Brandon
  • Brock Churches
  • Bronson Churches
  • Brookesmith - First Baptist Church
  • Brownwood - St. John's Episcopal Church
  • Brownwood - St. Anne Cathlic Church
  • Bruni
  • Brushy Creek - Churches
  • Buffalo Springs
  • Bulah - Adams Chapel Methodist Church
  • Bulcher
  • Bullard Churches
  • Bullock
  • Buncombe - Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church
  • Bunger
  • Burkett Churches
  • Burkeville Methodist Church
  • Burnet
  • Byers
  • Bynum


  • Caddo
  • Caledonia - Caledonia Methodist Church
  • Callisburg
  • Camp San Saba
  • Campbell
  • Campbellton
  • Canadian
  • Canyon
  • Caps
  • Caradan
  • Carbon
  • Carlton
  • Carmine
  • Carrizo Springs First Baptist Church
  • Carroll Springs United Methodist Church
  • Carterville
  • Carthage
  • Carthage/Snap - Cedar Grove Baptist Church
  • Cartwright
  • Castell - Methodist & Lutheran Churches
  • Castroville - St. Louis Catholic Church
  • Cave Creek - St. Paul Lutheran Church
  • Cayuga
  • Cedar Hill
  • Cedar Lane
  • Cee Vee
  • Cego
  • Celeste
  • Celina
  • Center City - United Methodist Church
  • Center Point
  • Center Point (Kerr County) - United Methodist Church
  • Centerville - First Methodist
  • Cestohowa - The Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
  • Chalk Hill
  • Champion Baptist Church
  • Channing United Methodist Church
  • Charlie
  • Charlotte
  • Chatfield Churches
  • Cheapside
  • Cherry Spring - Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Chico - The Siddon-Barnes Log Cabin, once the schoolhouse and church
  • Chicota
  • Childress
  • Chillicothe - First United Methodist Church
  • Chireno
  • Choate
  • Christine
  • Christoval
  • Circle
  • Cistern
  • Clairette - Baptist Church
  • Clarendon Churches
  • Clarkson - Clarkson Baptist Church
  • Clarksville
  • Clayton
  • Clearwater
  • Cleburne - Churches
  • Cleveland (Coleman County) - Cleveland Cemetery Chapel
  • Climax
  • Clyde
  • Coahoma
  • Coffeeville
  • Coldspring
  • Colony
  • Coletoville - Martin Luther Lutheran Church
  • College Hill
  • College Mound United Methodist Church
  • Colorado City
  • Comal
  • Concepcion
  • Concord
  • Concord Church
  • Concordia
  • Cookville
  • Cooper
  • Copperas
  • Cottage Hill - Cottage Hill United Methodist Church
  • Cornett
  • Corpus Christi Cathedral
  • Corsicana - Churches
  • Coryell City
  • Cottonwood - Methodist Church
  • Cotulla - Methodist Church
  • Coupland - St. Peters United Church Of Christ
  • Courtney - Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
  • Cozy Corner - Bethlehem AME Church
  • Crabapple - St. John's Lutheran Church c1867
  • Craft - Craft Baptist Church 2-2-23
  • Cranfills Gap - The Old Rock Church c1886
  • Cranfills Gap - St. Olaf's Church c.1917
  • Cresson Churches
  • Crews - Methodist Church
  • Cuero - Presbyterian Church
  • Cundiff Baptist Church
  • Cunningham Churches
  • Custer City
  • Cuthand


  • Dalby Springs - Methodist Church
  • Danville
  • Danevang - The Danish Lutheran Church
  • Davilla
  • Dawson
  • DeBerry Baptist church
  • Decatur - Episcopal Mission of the Ascension
  • DeKalb
  • Del Rio
  • Delhi
  • Democrat
  • Denhawken
  • Dennis
  • Desert
  • Detroit Churches
  • Dew
  • Dexter Community Church
  • Dialville - Methodist Church
  • Diana
  • Dicey
  • Dobbin
  • Dodge
  • Doole - Baptist Church
  • Dorchester - First Baptist Church
  • Doss - St. Peter Lutheran Church
  • Douglassville Churches
  • Downing - Church of Christ
  • Drasco
  • Draw - 1907 Draw United Methodist Church
  • Driftwood Church
  • Driscoll Churches
  • Dubina - Saints Cyril and Methodius Church
  • Duffau
  • Dundee
  • Dunn - Cowboy Church


  • Eagle Pass
  • Earl - Earle's Chapel Methodist Church
  • Earlywine - ME Church
  • East Bernard - Holy Cross Catholic Church
  • East Columbia
  • East Point
  • East Sweden Presbyterian Church
  • Easterly
  • Ebenezer
  • Echo
  • Ector
  • Eden
  • Edge
  • Edna
  • Edna Hill - Baptist Church
  • El Campo
  • El Paso - St. Patrick's Cathedral
  • Elbert
  • Eldorado
  • Eliasville Churches
  • Elkhart - Pilgrim Church
    First Protestant church in Texas
  • Ellinger
  • Elm Grove Baptist Church
  • Elmdale Baptist Church
  • Elmendorf
  • Elysian Fields
  • Emhouse
  • Emory
  • Encino - St. Anne Catholic Church
  • English
  • Ennis
  • Enon
  • Eola - Church closed
  • Eolian
  • Era
  • Estacado
  • Ethel
  • Eula Methodist Church
  • Evant - Baptist Church


  • Fair Play Churches & Closed Jerusalem Baptist Church
  • Fairland - The old rock church Crownover Chapel
  • Fairlie
  • Fairmont
  • Fairview
  • Falfurrias - Bethel Presbyterian Church
  • Fargo
  • Farmers Branch - 1891 Church
  • Farmersville
  • Fashing Churches
  • Fate Churches
  • Faysville
  • Fedor - Trinity Lutheran Church
  • Fentress Churches
  • Fincastle
  • Finney Baptist Church
  • Flat - Baptist Church
  • Flint Churches
  • Flomot
  • Floresville - Sacred Heart Catholic Church
  • Flower Grove
  • Floyd
  • Floydada
  • Foard City
  • Fodice - Mount Pleasant CME Church
  • Forestburg
  • Forney - First Presbyterian Church
  • Fort Davis
  • Fort Hancock
  • Fort Stockton - Episcopal Church
  • Fort Worth - The First Methodist Church, or the Fourth Street Church
    Little Church in the Warehouse
  • Fowlerton
  • Fredericksburg - Replica of "Vereins Kirche" or "Society's Church"
  • Fredericksburg - Marienkirche (Old St. Mary's Church)
  • Fredonia Mason County
  • Fredonia Gregg County
  • Frelsburg Texas Churches
  • Freyburg Methodist Church
  • Friberg-Cooper Methodist Church
  • Friendship
  • Friona
  • Fruitvale
  • Fulbright Churches
  • Funston, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church


  • Gainesville Churches
  • Galloway
  • Galveston Historic Churches
  • Garden City Churches
  • Garrison Churches
  • Garwood
  • Gary
  • Gatesville
  • Gause
  • Georgetown - St. John's Methodist Church
  • Georgia
  • Gerald
  • Gethsemane Churches
  • Gibtown Baptist Church
  • Gillett - Gillett Baptist Church
  • Gilliland - Gilliland Baptist Church
  • Gilmer
  • Glenwood
  • Gober - Baptist Church
  • Goldthwaite
  • Goliad
  • Goodlett First Baptist Church
  • Goodwill - AME Churches
  • Goree
  • Gorman Churches
  • Graball
  • Grandfalls
  • Grapeland
  • Grapevine - First United Methodist Church
  • Grapevine - First Baptist Church
  • Gray
  • Grayback
  • Gray's Prairie
  • Greenvine
  • Greenwood (Wise County)
  • Greenwood (Parker County)
  • Groesbeck - First Methodist Church
  • Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico - Church bell
  • Gulf Prairie
  • Gunsight
  • Gussettville
  • Gustine
  • Guthrie


  • Hackberry - Former Shiloh Lutheran Church
  • Hagensport
  • Hallsville
  • Hallettsville - Saint Mary's Parish
  • Hamby Churches
  • Hamilton Churches
  • Hamiliton - Rock House Church ruin
  • Happy
  • Hargill Churches
  • Harmony
  • Harper
  • Harriet - Harriet Baptist Church
  • Hartley - Catholic mural
  • Harwood - Little Zion Church
  • Haskell
  • Havana - Iglesia San Jose Church
  • Hawkins
  • Hebbronville - Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
  • Hebron
  • Hedley First Methodist Church
  • Helena Union Church
  • Hereford
  • Hermleigh
  • Hext
  • Hickston - Mounty Eden Church
  • Hico - First Methodist Church
  • High Hill- St. Mary's Catholic Church c.1906
  • Hilda - Bethel M.E. Church
  • Hiram - Locust Grove Baptist Church
  • Hobson - St. Boniface Catholic Church
  • Holland Churches
  • Holman - St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
  • Honey Grove Churches
  • Hooks
  • Hope Churches
  • Hostyn - Queen of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church
  • Hubbard
  • Huckabay Churches
  • Huffines
  • Hughes Springs
  • Hutto
  • Hyman old church & cemetery


  • Ida
  • Illinois Bend - Church and Tabernacle
  • Indian Gap
  • Indian Creek
  • Industry Churches
  • Ireland - Methodist Church


  • Jackboro
  • Jarrell
  • Jayton
  • Jean
  • Jefferson - Churches
  • Jermyn - First Methodist Church, closed
  • Jewett Methodist Church
  • Joaquin
  • Johnson City Churches
  • Johnsville Church of Christ
  • Jonesboro - 1871 Methodist Church
  • Jourdanton - Catholic Church
  • Joy - Joy United Methodist Church
  • Jud - Jud Baptist Church
  • Justin Churches


  • Kamay
  • Katemcy - Closed
  • Katy
  • Kendalia - Kendalia Community Church
  • Kenedy - M. E. Church
  • Kentucky Town
  • Kingston
  • Kingsville
  • Kirvin - Churches
  • Knapp Baptist Church
  • Knickerbocker
  • Knippa - Emmanuel Lutheran Church
  • Knott - Baptist Church
  • Koerth
  • Kosse - Churches
  • Kovar - Saints Peter and Paul's Church
  • Krum


  • La Casa
  • La Coste
  • La Grange Churches
  • La Lomita Chapel
  • La Rosita Holy Cross Catholic Church
  • La Vernia - Immanuel Lutheran Church
  • La Ward
  • Ladonia - Churches
  • LaFayette
  • Lamar - The Chapel in Lamar Cemetery
  • Lamkin - United Methodist Church
  • Lampasas
  • Lanham Methodist Church & Cemetery
  • Larissa - CME Church
  • Las Gallinas - St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Las Rusias
  • Latch
  • Latium - Sacred Heart Catholic Church
  • Lawn
  • Lawsonville
  • Leander Churches
  • Leary
  • Lebanon Baptist Church
  • Ledbetter Churches
  • Leesburg - Baptist Church
  • Leming - Baptist Church
  • Leonard Churches
  • Leigh Churches
  • Lela
  • Levita Baptist Church
  • Levita United Methodist Church
  • Liberty City Churches
  • Lindsay - Saint Peter's Catholic Church
  • Lingleville - Church of Christ
  • Lipscomb Union Church
  • Little Elm - Button Memorial United Methodist Church
  • Little Hope Baptist Church
  • Little Hope - The Missionary Baptist Church
  • Little New York - St. James Church
  • Littlefield
  • Live Oak Hill
  • Liverpool
  • Lockhart
  • Lois
  • London
  • Lone Grove - Church of Christ
  • Lone Oak Methodist Church
  • Lone Star - Lone Star Missionary Baptist Church
  • Lone Star Churches Morris Co
  • Longview
  • Longview - Harmon General Hospital Chapel/Speer Chapel
  • Lonnie
  • Lopeño
  • Loraine - Methodist Church
  • Loving Churches
  • Lowry Crossing - Wilson Chapel
  • Loyal Valley
  • Losoya - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church
  • Lubbock
  • Lueders
  • Lumkins
  • Luther


  • Mabank
  • Macedonia
  • Madisonville Baptist Church
  • Madras - Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church
  • Malta
  • Manheim
  • Mankins
  • Maple Churches
  • Marathon
  • Marcelina
  • Margaret
  • Marietta
  • Markham
  • Markley
  • Marlin
  • Marshall
  • Mart
  • Martindale
  • Maryneal
  • Marysville
  • Mason - Churches
  • Matagorda - Historic Churches
  • Maud
  • Maxdale
  • Maxwell
  • May - Methodist Church
  • Maydelle
  • Mayflower
  • Maysfield - Methodist Church
  • Maysfield - Presbyterian Church
  • McCaulley - Baptist Church
  • McFaddin - Infant Jesus of Prague Catholic Church
  • McKinney
  • McLeod - Church of Christ
  • McMahan Chapel Feature
  • McNeil - McNeil Baptist Church
  • McNorton
  • Megargel
  • Melvin
  • Memphis - The former Presbyterian Church
  • Mentone Church & Former Schoolhouse
    The oldest building in Loving County
  • Mentz -St. Roch's Church
  • Mercedes - Mision Luterana Emanuel
  • Merit
  • Merkel - First Methodist Church
  • Mertens
  • Mertzon
  • Mexia
  • Miami
  • Midland
  • Milford - Saint James AME Church
  • Millersview Churches
  • Mineola - St. Peter's Catholic Church
  • Mineral
  • Mingus
  • Mission
  • Mixon Churches
  • Mobeetie United Methodist Church
  • Montgomery
  • Monthalia
  • Mooreville
  • Moran
  • Moravia - The Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church
    A National Register Property
  • Morgan
  • Moro
  • Moulton
  • Mount Enterprise Churches
  • Mount Mitchell
  • Mount Olive - Primitive Baptist Church
  • Mount Vernon - Churches & historical markers
  • Mount Selman Churches
  • Mount Zion Baptist Church and Cemetery
  • Muenster - Sacred Heart Church
  • Mulberry
  • Muldoon Churches
  • Mullin
  • Mumford
  • Murphy - First Baptist Church
  • Murray Methodist Church
  • Mustang
  • Myra


  • Nacogdoches Churches
  • Nada - Catholic Church
  • Naples
  • Neches
  • Needville - St. Michael's Catholic Church
  • Negley
  • Nelsonville
  • Nesbitt Baptist Church
  • Nevada Churches
  • New Braunfels Churches
  • New Corn Hill - Holy Trinity Catholic Church, c.1913
  • New Sweden - New Sweden Lutheran Church
    The most photographed church in Texas
  • New Ulm churches
  • New Waverly - St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • New Wehdem
  • Newberry Presbyterian
  • Newport
  • Newsome
  • Noack - Christ Lutheran Church
  • Nocona Churches
  • Nolan
  • Noonday (Harrison County)
  • Noonday (Smith County)
  • Norse - The Old Rock Church c1886
  • Norse - Our Savior's Lutheran Church & Old Rock Church
  • North Chapel - New Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
  • Northfield - Church of Christ
  • Novice Coleman Co
  • Novice Lamar Co
  • Nugent


  • Oak Flats
  • Oakland Colorado Co
  • Oakland - Methodist Church
  • Oakwood
  • Oatmeal - Stone church
  • Odell
  • O'Farrell
  • Oilton
  • Oklahoma Lane
  • Ola
  • Old Boston
  • Old Alton Chapel
  • Old Center
  • Old D'Hanis St. Dominic Catholic Church
  • Old Moulton Baptist Church
  • Old Salem
  • Old Waverly
  • Olfen - St. Boniface Catholic Church
  • Olin
  • Olton
  • Omaha
  • Oplin
  • Orange - First Presbyterian Church
  • Orange Grove
  • Orangedale - Friendship Baptist Church
  • Orchard
  • Ore City
  • Orla - Orla Baptist Mission
  • Osage - Baptist Church
  • Osage
  • Osceola
  • Otto
  • Oxford


  • Paint Rock - Methodist Church
  • Palestine Churches
  • Palito Blanco
  • Palmer
  • Paluxy
  • Panna Maria - Immaculate Conception Church
  • Pansy Baptist Church
  • Papalote
  • Paris - First Methodist Church
  • Paris - The First Presbyterian Church (no image)
  • Parker - Presbyterian Church
  • Patillo Baptist Church
  • Pawnee
  • Paxton Churches
  • Pearl - Church of Christ
  • Pearland - Original Methodist Church
  • Pearsall Churches
  • Peaster Churches
  • Pelham Churches & Historical Marker
  • Peoria Baptist Church
  • Pep
  • Perry Churches
  • Perryton - Gray Church c 1916
  • Perryville Churches
  • Pert - Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church
  • Petrolia
  • Petronila
  • Pettus
  • Petty - Churches
  • Peyton Colony - Mount Horeb Baptist Church
  • Pickens
  • Pidcoke - Methodist Church
  • Pierce
  • Pilot Point
  • Pin Oak St. Mary's Catholic Church
  • Pine Island Baptist Church
  • Pine Springs Baptist Church
  • Pinehill Churches
  • Piney - Piney Baptist Church
  • Pipe Creek
  • Pittsburg Historic Churches Feature
  • Placid Baptist Church
  • Plantersville - St. Mary's Catholic Church Feature
  • Pleasant Ridge
  • Plum
  • Point
  • Polly - Polly's Chapel
  • Ponder
  • Port Lavaca
  • Port O'Connor
  • Portland
  • Posey - Immanuel Lutheran Church
  • Poth
  • Porterville
  • Postoak
  • Potosi - Lytle Gap Potosi Methodist Church
  • Pottsboro
  • Pottsville - The closed Immanuel Church
  • Poynor - First Baptist Church
  • Power Point
  • Praha - St. Mary's Church c1892
  • Prairie Lea Churches
  • Priddy - Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Pritchett
  • Proffitt Baptist Church
  • Prosper
  • Providence
  • Pumpville - Pumpville Baptist Church
  • Purmela - Baptist Church
  • Purves - Baptist Church


  • Quanah
  • Queen City
  • Quihi - Church Steeple
  • Quitman


  • Rabke Methodist Church
  • Rainbow - Baptist Church
  • Randolph
  • Ranger
  • Ratcliff Baptist Church
  • Ravenna
  • Reagan
  • Reagan Wells
  • Realitos - Catholic Church
  • Rek Hill
  • Red Rock
  • Redwater Churches
  • Refugio - Catholic Church
  • Rhineland - St. Josephs Catholic Church
  • Rice
  • Richland - St. John German Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Richmond
  • Ridge - Former church building
  • Ringgold Churches
  • Rising Star
  • Riviera
  • Roaring Springs
  • Robert Lee
  • Roby
  • Rochelle
  • Rocksprings
  • Rockwall Historic Churches
  • Rocky Mound
  • Roosevelt
  • Rosalie
  • Rosebud - Powers Chapel and Cemetery
  • Round Mountain
  • Round Rock - Palm Valley Lutheran Church 1894 and Cemetery
  • Round Top churches
  • Rowena - St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Roxton
  • Royse City - First United Methodist Church
  • Rucker
  • Ruidosa
  • Rusk Churches
  • Rutersville - Methodst Church 1940


  • Sabinal
  • Sadler - Methodist
  • Sagerton - Faith Lutheran Church
  • Saint Hedwig - The Annunciation Catholic Church
  • Saint Jo - Methodist Church
  • Salado - First United Methodist Church
  • San Augustine Churches
  • San Diego Churches
  • San Elizario - San Elizario Chapel
  • San Felipe
  • San Marcos
  • San Perlita
  • San Saba Historic Churches
  • Sanco Closed Church
  • Sand Flat - Church of Christ
  • Sand Hill Churches
  • Sanderson - Catholic Church
  • Sandoval
  • Sanger - Landmark Baptist Church & more
  • Santa Anna - Santa Anna First Baptist Church
  • Santa Maria - Chapel
  • Santo - The First Baptist Church
  • Saspamco - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
  • Saturn
  • Sayers
  • School Hill - The Churches of School Hill by Charlie Turnbo
  • Schulenburg - Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery
    Black church and cemetery
  • Scotland - St. Boniface Catholic Church
  • Searsville Baptist Church
  • Serbin - St. Paul's Lutheran Church historical marker
  • Seymour Texas - First Christian Church
  • Shady Grove
  • Shankleville - Mount Hope & Mount Zion
  • Shannon
  • Sharp
  • Shelby - St. Paul's Lutheran Church
  • Shelbyville - First United Methodist Church
  • Shep
  • Shiloh Baptist Church
  • Shiner - Saints Cyril and Methodius Church
  • Shive - Lutheran Church
  • Sierra Blanca Churches
  • Sidney
  • Silver Baptist Church
  • Simmons - Community Church
  • Simonton
  • Simpsonville
  • Singleton
  • Sinton
  • Skidmore
  • Slaton
  • Slocum
  • Smithland
  • Snook
  • Socorro - Mission Socorro
  • Somerset Churches
  • South Bend - Church ruins
  • South Purmela - United Methodist Church
  • Southland
  • Southmayd Baptist Church
  • Spanish Camp
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  • Zephyr
  • Zephyr - Former Presbyterian Church, Community Center today
  • Zigzag
    More to come



  • Synagogues or Temples
  • The B'nai Abraham Synagogue, Brenham
    Believed to be the oldest Orthodox synagogue in continuous use in Texas

  • Rabbi Cohen by Archie P. McDonald
    Rabbi Henry Cohen (1863-1952) - Rabbi of Galveston's Temple B’nai Israel, provided a place for thousands of Jewish immigrants routed through the port of Galveston.


  • About Churches & Religion,
    and Related Stories

  • Texas Mormons by Clay Coppedge
    If Lyman Wight could have had his way, Texas and not Utah might have become home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Mormon Church...
  • The Priest and the President by Michael Barr 1-1-24
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  • The Sermon on the Rock by Michael Barr 8-15-23
  • Lady Bird's Gift to St. Barnabas Church by Michael Barr 8-5-23

  • Put on your church genes by Jase Graves

  • Muenster - Old Europe in Frontier Texas by John Hellman

  • How the Rabbi's Son Learned to Cope with Life's Challenges by Bill Cherry

  • New Preacher by Mike Cox
    Preaching in Texas in the 1800s

  • Peyote by Clay Coppedge

  • Sunday School vs Cockfight by Mike Cox

  • Christ Church Cathedral in Houston by Wanda Orton

  • Strangers in a Strange Land by Britt Towery
    A new book on the lives and ministry of a Miles, Texas Sweetheart & A Comanche Co. Texas Cowboy

  • Pure Gospel by Bob Bowman
    Throughout East Texas are hundreds of gospel music venues where people gather on weekends to hear songs that you’ll hear only in churches...

  • Schulenburg Preacher Honored as Bike Bug Brother of 2011 – Building A Church by Mike Schneider
    Reverend Johnny Moore of Schulenburg, Texas

  • Rev. Marcus Valenta achieves longest active-duty record in U.S. history by Murray Montgomery
    Of all the chaplains in the U.S. Armed Forces, one has seen longer continuous combat-theatre duty than any other...

  • William B. Bloys and Bloys Camp Meeting by C. F. Eckhardt
    In 1878 a rather slightly built man with blue-gray eyes came to Fort Davis, Texas. He was a native of Tennessee and an ordained Presbyterian minister. The man’s name was William B. Bloys. While a lot of folks have heard about another denizen of the trans-Pecos, Roy Bean, William B. Bloys was far more influential, though far less widely known.
  • Father Joseph Keller
  • The Tar and Feathering of Father Joseph M. Keller, Slaton, Texas, 1920's by James Villanueva
    On a Saturday night, March 4, 1922, in Slaton, what may have begun as a whisper, an aside, a comment, or just mindless chatter, transformed the community...
  • Candy Shops and Crossbones; Slaton, Texas 1920s by James Villanueva
    The night when Reverend Hardesty was to address the Skull and Crossbones militia, the Associated Press carried an account of it. “On Sunday night there were more people on the outside of the church building than on the inside,” he wrote. “People came from a radius of fifty miles.”...

  • The Circuit Rider by Bob Bowman
    Fowler was a circuit rider, missionary, marksman, chaplain of the Texas Senate and a brilliant pulpiteer who rode and walked thousands of miles between the Sabine River and San Antonio to found many of Texas’ Methodist churches...


  • Making Prayer A Habit Really Works by Britt Towery
    Prayer has been an important and basic part of religions all the way back to the time of the dinosaurs. (Save your opinions on dinosaurs and humans living at the same time. I know they did not.) Here are some opinions on prayer...

  • Random Notes from East Texas by Bob Bowman
    The Holy Oak - An image of Jesus in the end of the limb.

  • It was a time we must never forget by Britt Towery
    Too soon we forget the terrorism of the 1950s and 1960s. The cross-burnings, obscene telephone calls, character assassination and political intrigue on those who believed in and fought for human rights and dignity, and against bigotry, hate and indifference.I was reminded of those years when I read of the passing of a man who stood for equality for all races. Charles Wellborn...

  • The Good Old Days (for Some of Us) by Britt Towery
    About five years after America’s Civil War ended, 1870, the majority of American Protestants were of the strong opinion that America was a Christian nation. There was in the nineteenth century indications that the Protestant majority carried the day...

  • Preacher Freeman by Mike Cox
    Religious beliefs aside, all of us owe a debt to the early-day Baptist and Methodist preachers who made their way to Texas to try to make a dent in all its sinners. Those Bible-toters not only saved souls, being literate in an era when many were not, they saved a lot of history in their written recollections...

  • Mobeetie Preachers by Mike Cox
    In 1887 newly married John M. Barcus filled the pulpit of the Methodist Church in Graham, then one of only a handful of towns in Northwest Texas...

  • Fall Roundup by Mike Cox
    Anyone who likes to hunt dove knows that hitting a small, fast-moving object in the air is not easy. In his 1937 book, “Memories,” J.B. Cranfill told the story of J. M. Carroll, a man who had the reputation of being the best wing shot in Texas...

  • Memorial Day Services at Old Saltillo Church by Robert Cowser

  • Sanctified Sisters by Clay Coppedge
    "... In their day, which ran roughly from the 1860s to just after the turn of the century, the Sanctified Sisters existed as one of the most unusual and, in their own way, influential religious groups in Bell County history..."

  • Pistol-packing Preacher by Bob Bowman
    On his first morning in Groveton Lee presided at the funeral of a young church member who had been murdered. He soon named criminals from his pulpit and where they gathered...

  • Lord's Acre by Mike Cox
    "... In addition to whatever they might put in the collection plate each week, many farmers used to give the proceeds from one acre of their crop land to their church each year. Though not as common as it used to be, the tradition has endured in some corners of Texas..."

  • Rev. John August Tubbe by W. T. Block Jr.
    An Immigrant Farmer, Sawmiller, and Preacher
    In 1845 the gates opened widely for a flood of German immigration to Texas...

  • The Parker Family by Bob Bowman
    "... In the 1820s, Daniel Parker, an anti-missionary Baptist leader and member of the Parker clan that produced Cynthia Ann, stirred up Baptists in Illinois with his separatist beliefs and eventually led his family and neighbors to East Texas to write a new religious chapter in Texas history..."

  • Man with a Method by Archie P. McDonald
    "... Samuel Doak McMahon held the first meeting of Methodists in Texas in his home, located ten or so miles east of San Augustine, in 1832, but the arrival of Littleton Fowler in 1837 was the first authorized Methodist activity there..."

  • Rev. Jonas Franklin Dancer by Mike Cox
    The namesake of Dancer Peak in Llano County

  • The Lady in Blue by Bob Bowman
    For longer than anyone can remember, the story of “the lady in blue” has existed on the fringes of East Texas history and religion.

  • A Prudent Use of Guilt by Maggie Van Ostrand

  • Racing Parson by Mike Cox
    How a preacher held a horse race and build a church

  • The Church Lights by Bob Bowman
    When the church decided to phase out the old kerosene lights for safety reasons, Clark went to Jefferson Lighting Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and told them what he wanted..

  • Creating a Gospel Classic by Bob Bowman
    Songwriter Stuart Hamblem & "It's No Secret What God Can Do"

  • Crusty Old Baptist by Murray Montgomery ("Times Past")

  • Dogs in Church by Murray Montgomery ("Times Past")

  • Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus: Missionary by Archie P. McDonald

  • McMahan's Chapel by Archie P. McDonald ("All Things Historical")

  • Mission Tejas by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical")

  • Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais Mission by Archie P. McDonald

  • Holy Rolling by Rick Vanderpool
    All the "holy" places in Texas

  • John Wesley Kenney - (1799-1865) "One of great pioneer Methodist ministers of Texas"

  • Francis Wilson - Historical Marker
    "A central figure in the early days of Texas Methodism..."



  • "Once Upon A Line" Light verse and poetry by d.knape

  • The Little Lutheran Church
  • What I love about God
  • Is God A Woman



  • Cartoons by Roger T. Moore

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  • One church, 23 denominations
  • Lord have mercy
  • February 13, 1991 - Peyote in Church

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