The short answer
The Living Bread maps 358 Christian churches in Germany in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.Germany in context
83.6 millionpopulation
46.3%Christian (FOWID, 2025)
38.7 millionChristians (approx.)
358churches we map
The churches of Germany are roughly balanced between Roman Catholic and the Protestant (EKD) churches.
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Browse the 358 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from FOWID (2025); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
