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"Fast Facts about American Religion." //Hartford Institute of Religious Research //. Hartford Institute, n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2012. .

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 * 1) there are roughly 350,000 religious congregations in the United States.
 * 2) about 314,000 are catholic and orthodox churches
 * 3) Non-Christian religious congregations are estimated at about 12,000.
 * 4) The median church in the U.S. has 75 regular participants in worship on Sunday mornings.
 * 5) Recently, sociologists of religion have questioned that figure, saying Americans tend to exaggerate how often they attend.
 * 6)  In third and fourth spots were the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, with 6 million member, and the Church of God in Christ, a predominantly black Pentecostal denomination, with 5.5 million members.
 * 7)  There were 217 denominations listed in the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
 * 8) . The Catholic Church 68,202,492, [ranked 1 in 2011], down 0.44 percent.
 * 9) 2. Southern Baptist Convention 16,136,044, [ranked 2 in 2011], down 0.15 percent.
 * 10) . The United Methodist Church 7,679,850, [ranked 3 in 2011], down 1.22 percent.
 * 11) The American mosque is a remarkably young institution; more than three-fourths (76%) of all existing mosques were established since 1980.
 * 12) The number of mosques with large attendance has increased. In 2000 there were only 12% of mosques with attendance over 500 and in 2011 there were 18% with attendance over 500 people. More than 2% of American mosques can be classified as megachurches or megamosques which are defined as a congregation with attendance of 2000 or more people.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> The number of mosques in urban areas is decreasing, while the number of mosques in suburban areas is increasing. In 2011, 28 percent of mosques were located in suburbs, up from 16 percent in 2000.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The conversion rate per mosque has remained steady over the past two decades. In 2011, the average number of converts per mosque was 15.3. In 2000 the average was 16.3 converts per mosque.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mosques remain an extremely diverse religious institution. Only a tiny minority of mosques (3 percent) have just one ethnic group that attends that mosque. South Asians, Arab-Americans and African-Americans remain the dominant ethnic groups, but significant numbers of Somalis, West Africans and Iraqis now worship at mosques nationwide.