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Mormonism (1%) Jehovah's Witnesses (1%) No religion (20%) Judaism (1%) Other religion (2%) Don't know (1%) Religion in Atlanta, while historically centered on Protestant Christianity, now involves many faiths as a result of the city and metro area's increasingly international population.
48.4% of the people in Atlanta are religious: - 10.0% are Baptist. - 1.0% are Episcopalian. - 9.8% are Catholic. - 0.4% are Lutheran. - 5.8% are Methodist. - 2.0% are Pentecostal. - 3.2% are Presbyterian. - 0.4% are Church of Jesus Christ. - 11.6% are another Christian faith. - 1.0% are Judaism. - 1.0% are an eastern faith.
As with the rest of the South, Georgia is highly religious, with the predominant religion in the state being Christianity. In fact, 85% of Georgians are Christians with 76% of those being Protestant, 8% Catholic and 1% designated as Other; 13% of the population have no religion and 2% are of a religion other than Christianity. [3] .
Apr 11, 2014 · History. The state of Georgia has possibly the most colorful religious (specifically Protestant) history in the American south. Georgia was the first state in the South to embrace Methodism, America’s first major home-grown Protestant denomination, thanks to the early work of John Wesley in Savannah in the 1730s.
2 days ago · Atlanta is the state capital and the seat of Fulton county. (more) Atlanta, city, capital (1868) of Georgia, U.S., and seat (1853) of Fulton county (but also partly in DeKalb county). It lies in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state, just southeast of the Chattahoochee River.
Atlanta ( / ætˈlæn ( t) ə / at-LAN- (t)ə) [14] is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring DeKalb County. With a population of 510,823 living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th ...
Sunday may be the prominent day of worship in Atlanta, but that’s changing as a growing number of other religions establish congregations in our global city. This is an occasional series that...
