Christianity in Houston

===Baptists===
[[File:Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Downtown Houston (HDR).jpg|thumb|[[Antioch Missionary Baptist Church]]]]
Baptists are spread throughout numerous denominations for Greater Houston. Numbering 926,554 adherents as of 2020,<ref name=":0" /> the largest Baptist denominations operating in the city and metropolitan area are the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] through its [[Southern Baptists of Texas Convention]] and [[Baptist General Convention of Texas]]; the [[American Baptist Association]], [[American Baptist Churches USA]], [[Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship]]; [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention USA]] and [[National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc.|National Baptist Convention of America]]; and the [[National Missionary Baptist Convention of America|National Missionary Baptist Convention]].

The oldest predominantly African American Baptist church in Houston is the [[Antioch Missionary Baptist Church]], historically a part of the [[Fourth Ward, Houston|Fourth Ward]] and now in [[Downtown Houston]].<ref name="Davis">Davis, Rod. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCBCB6042BB9F95&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Houston's really good idea Bus tour celebrates communities that forged a city.]" ''[[San Antonio Express-News]]''. Sunday August 3, 2003. Travel 1M. Retrieved on February 11, 2012.</ref> [[Jack Yates]] once served as the pastor of this church.<ref name="YatesHandbook">"[https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fya07 YATES, JOHN HENRY]." ''[[Handbook of Texas Online]]''.</ref> Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, a black church, was originally established in the Fourth Ward in 1872 but moved to the [[Third Ward, Houston|Third Ward]] in 1981. In 2002 it had 1,500 members. Lonnie Smith was a leader in the congregation and filed the [[Smith v. Allwright]] case along with the church's pastor, A.A. Lucas, in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite news|author=Zuniga, Jo Ann|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/After-130-years-Good-Hope-still-looks-ahead-2086683.php|title=After 130 years, Good Hope still looks ahead|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=2002-03-24|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref>

As of 2012 [[Second Baptist Church Houston]], led by [[Homer Edwin Young|Homer Edwin "Ed" Young]], is the largest [[Baptist church]] in the U.S.<ref>"[http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Second-Baptist-introduces-new-Spanish-service-3465226.php Second Baptist will launch Spanish service on Easter]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. April 6, 2012. Retrieved on May 3, 2014.</ref>