Houses of Worship
Churches and other houses of worship in Charlotte, gathered both from the places tagged as such and from the names of everything else in the guide — which is why there is a bar in it. Full denomination, service-time and directory coverage is on the roadmap. Looking for a religious event or service? See the events calendar.
Belmont Abbey — Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians
100 Belmont-Mt. Holly Rd, Belmont, NC 28012
The basilica at the heart of Belmont Abbey, the Benedictine monastery founded in 1876 whose monks 'seek the Lord, together' — daily Mass and six daily community prayer gatherings, with visitors welcome.
Catholic (Benedictine)
- Sun11amConventual MassThe monastic schedule runs the same every day
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Yeah, we know.
Carolina Beer Temple
215 N Ames St, Suite 1000, Matthews, NC 28105
Matthews' beloved craft beer taproom, freshly reopened in a bigger space at Ames Station with a heavy local-tap list and constant food trucks.
It is a bar. This list finds houses of worship by looking for words like chapel, parish and temple, and Carolina Beer Temple clears that bar on a technicality. We could tighten the filter, but we support freedom of religion.
First Baptist Charlotte
301 South Davidson Street, Charlotte, NC
A downtown congregation old enough to remember when Tryon Street was still dirt.
Baptist
- Sun10:30amSunday worship
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
First Baptist Church (Spirit Square)
318 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
McMichael's domed 1909 sanctuary beside the old Carnegie library — a Baptist church that became Spirit Square's concert hall in the 1970s.
Not yet researched as a house of worship — this listing was matched on its name. Check the official site above for services.
First Presbyterian Church
200 W Trade St, Charlotte, NC 28202
Gothic Revival landmark in a shaded churchyard on W Trade — the oldest fabric dates to 1857, spire rebuilt 1883–84.
Presbyterian (PC(USA))
- Sun11amTraditional serviceSanctuary; year-round
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
First United Methodist Church
501 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
The 1927 union of Tryon Street and Trinity Methodist, built in stone on North Tryon with James B. Duke's hundred thousand dollars.
United Methodist
- Sun11amClassic WorshipSanctuary
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
First United Presbyterian Church
201 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28202
A Gothic Revival church the congregation built with its own hands in the 1890s — begun by worshipers who walked down out of a segregated gallery in 1866.
Presbyterian (PC(USA))
A working house of worship, but we have not been able to verify its service times from its own source — so none are listed. Check with them before setting out.
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
3400 Beatties Ford Rd, Charlotte, NC 28216, 28216
Large, long-established Black Baptist congregation at the northern end of the Beatties Ford corridor.
Missionary Baptist
- Sun8amSunday worship
- Sun10amSunday worshipIn person and online
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Grace A.M.E. Zion Church
219 S Brevard St, Charlotte, NC 28202, 28202
Dedicated in 1902 to a William W. Smith design, Grace A.M.E. Zion is the last church building left from the Brooklyn neighborhood, still standing on South Brevard Street.
Not yet researched as a house of worship — this listing was matched on its name. Check the official site above for services.
Hawthorne Lane United Methodist Church
501 Hawthorne Ln, Charlotte, NC 28204
Louis Asbury's 1916 Gothic Revival for the Elizabeth streetcar suburb, founded by the likes of department-store man J.B. Ivey — Wesley and a young Jesus in its two great windows.
United Methodist
- Sun9:30amFriendship ClassSunday School, multi-generational
- Sun10:30amSunday worshipSanctuary
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church
401 N McDowell St, Charlotte, NC 28204
Historic Black congregation founded in the 1870s, worshiping today on N McDowell across from its landmark 1911 sanctuary.
A.M.E. Zion
- Sun9amSunday School
- Sun10amSunday worship
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Myers Park Presbyterian Church
2501 Oxford Place, Charlotte, NC
Gothic stone and a bell tower that out-scales half of Uptown.
Presbyterian (PC(USA))
- Sun10amTraditional worshipSanctuary
- Sun10amCelebrate worshipOxford Hall; contemporary
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Phuoc Hai Pagoda
7004 Tuckaseegee Rd, Charlotte, NC 28214
Vietnamese Buddhist temple on outer Tuckaseegee that anchors Charlotte's Vietnamese community gatherings, from Tet to alms days.
Vietnamese Buddhist
A working house of worship, but we have not been able to verify its service times from its own source — so none are listed. Check with them before setting out.
St. Martin's Episcopal Church
1510 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28204
Open-and-affirming Episcopal parish of about 700 members anchoring a leafy corner of the Elizabeth neighborhood.
Episcopal
- Sun9:30amHoly Eucharist
Summer times — this congregation publishes no program-year schedule.
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
St. Peter Catholic Church
507 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
Charlotte's oldest Catholic parish (est. 1851) in an 1893 dark-brick Victorian Gothic church, run by the Jesuits.
Catholic (Jesuit parish)
- Sun7:30amMass
- Sun9amMass
- Sun11:30amMassLivestreamed
- Sun5pmMass
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
115 W 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28202
The Episcopal mother church of the region — organized 1834, its 1895 building still holding the corner of Seventh and Tryon.
Episcopal
- Sun8:30amHoly Eucharist, Rite I
- Sun11amChoral Holy Eucharist, Rite IILivestreamed
- Mon8amMorning PrayerChapel
- Tue8amMorning Prayer and Holy CommunionChapel
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church
7407 Steele Creek Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217
The congregation that gave the whole district its name — founded 1760, with an 1889 sanctuary and a cemetery full of Revolutionary-era Scots-Irish settlers.
Presbyterian
- Sun9:30amSunday SchoolSeptember to May; adults only June to August
- Sun10:30amSunday worship
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
Temple Beth El
5101 Providence Rd, Charlotte, NC 28226
Charlotte's Reform congregation since 1943, at home on Shalom Park since a 1992 Torah walk carried the scrolls up Providence Road.
Jewish (Reform)
- Sat9amTorah Study
- Sat10:30amShabbat morning service
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
The Cathedral of Saint Patrick
1621 Dilworth Rd E, Charlotte, NC 28203
The Catholic diocese's mother church, brick Gothic on a quiet Dilworth corner.
Catholic
- Sun7:30amMass
- Sun9amMass
- Sun11:30amMass
- Tue12:10pmWeekday Mass
From the congregation's own site. Times change — confirm before a first visit.
This directory is incomplete by design for now — it surfaces only what already exists in the POI dataset. If you run or attend a house of worship in the Charlotte area and want it listed, the correction/takedown contact on the Colophon page reaches the guide's maintainers.