Megachurch Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === United States === In 2010, the Hartford Institute's database listed more than 1,300 [[List of megachurches in the United States|megachurches in the United States]]. About 50 churches on the list had average attendance exceeding 10,000, and one had 47,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html |title=Hartford Institute for Religion Research, database of Megachurches |publisher=Hirr.HartSem.edu |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref> On one weekend in November 2015, around one in ten Protestant churchgoers in the U.S.—about 5 million people—attended service in a megachurch.<ref>{{Cite web | title = The megachurch boom rolls on, but big concerns are rising too|url = http://www.religionnews.com/2015/12/02/megachurch-evangelical-christians/ | publisher = Religion News Service | access-date = 1 February 2016|date = 2 December 2015}}</ref> Some 3,000 individual [[Catholic Church]] parishes have 2,000 or more attendants for an average Sunday Mass, but they are not called megachurches as that is a Protestant term.<ref name="hartford">{{cite web |url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html |title=Megachurch Definition |publisher=Hartford Institute for Religion Research |access-date=6 February 2010 |url-status = live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514173618/http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html |archive-date=May 14, 2016 }}</ref> In the United States, the phenomenon has more than quadrupled in the two decades to 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=tflynn_26_5 |title=Redirect |publisher=www.SecularHumanism.org |access-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619065320/http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=tflynn_26_5}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page