Faiths & Denominations

African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after white Methodist ...
Amish
The Amish have attempted five times during the twentieth century to develop communities in Arkansas. All five ...
Anglicans
Arkansas Anglicans are individuals and parishes that, while having some historical connection with the Episcop...
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God is an evangelical, Pentecostal organization that was founded in Arkansas in 1914. It has...
Associate Reformed Presbyterians
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1782. It was ...
Bahá'ís
The Bahá’í faith originated in Persia (present-day Iran) in the mid-1800s as a movement within a minority ...
Baptists
Baptists make up the largest Protestant Christian group in Arkansas, characterized by the practice of baptism,...
Buddhists
Buddhists in Arkansas are represented by ethnic immigrants who bring to the state the religious practices of t...
Christadelphians
Christadelphians have had a presence in Arkansas since 1852, but their impact upon the state is difficult to m...
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
The Christian movement called “Disciples” (among other names) came to Arkansas in the 1830s. Ministers who...
Christian Scientists
aka: Christian Science
aka: Church of Christ, Scientist
Despite smaller numbers of followers than other denominations in Ar...
Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a predominantly African-American Pentecostal Christian denomination, he...
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
aka: Mormons
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes shortene...
Church of the Nazarene
The state of Arkansas was one of the cradles for the early expansion of the Church of the Nazarene, America’...
Churches of Christ
The churches of Christ make up the second-largest religious fellowship in Arkansas in regular attendance numbe...
Cobbites
The Cobbites were a religious group that began in White County in 1876 under the leadership of the Reverend Co...
Cowboy Churches
Cowboy churches are a version of Christian worship typified by a relaxed “come-as-you-are” ethos and gener...
Cumberland Presbyterians
Beginning in 1812, the Cumberland Presbyterian (CP) denomination sent missionaries to preach the Gospel and es...
Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC)
The Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC) is an independent Catholic denomination, not in communion with the Rom...
Episcopalians
The Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas encompasses the geographic boundaries of the state of Arkansas. The diocese ...
Greek Orthodox
The ancient Christian Greek Orthodox Church claims a founding by Jesus Christ and his apostles, as described i...
Hindus
An estimated 15,000 Hindus were living in Arkansas by the first decades of the twenty-first century. This smal...
Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit
One of Arkansas’s quirkiest religious groups, the Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit, located at Gilbert (Sear...
Interfaith Arkansas
Interfaith Arkansas is an ecumenical and interfaith organization bringing together several religious groups fo...
Jehovah's Witnesses
Since early in its history, the religious movement known as Jehovah’s Witnesses (or the Watchtower Bible and...
Jews
Jews have always been a tiny minority of Arkansas’s population, yet their history in the state is long and d...
Kelleyite Churches of Christ
The Kelleyite Churches of Christ constitute a small Christian denomination located in west central Arkansas. I...
Lutherans
Lutherans have lived in Arkansas since the end of the eighteenth century, although the first Lutheran churches...
Methodists
Methodism came into what is now Arkansas at least two decades before statehood, just as it had been brought to...
Muslims
Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with 7 million Muslims living in the United States and more th...
Nahziryah Monastic Community
aka: Purple People
Nahziryah Monastic Community is a remote esoteric spiritual center ...
Pentecostal Church of God
The Arkansas District of the Pentecostal Church of God is, with 150 churches, the largest district within the ...