The short answer
The Living Bread maps 546 Christian churches in South Africa in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.South Africa in context
The churches of South Africa are a large Protestant and Independent (Zionist and Pentecostal) presence, plus Roman Catholic.
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Browse the 546 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.
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The Living Bread. “How Many Churches Are in South Africa?” living-bread.org/how-many-churches-in-south-africa.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Pew Research Center (2020); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
