Community Directory
Houses of Worship.
Columbia has a street named Church Street, and it is lined with churches. This is a public directory of the congregations that meet inside the city — listed, not ranked, and open to anyone we have missed.
How this page works
A directory, not an endorsement.
The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion, and it also keeps government out of the business of preferring one faith over another. So this page is a bulletin board and nothing more.
The city does not endorse, rank, recommend, or vouch for any congregation listed here. Every entry carries the same information in the same order, alphabetically. Any faith community that meets in Columbia is welcome on this page — if yours is not here, or a detail is wrong, send it to us and we will add or fix it.
We have deliberately left out service times. We could only confirm them for about a third of these congregations, and printing a partial list would make the rest look like an afterthought — and service times change. Call the congregation, or follow the link where there is one.
On the National Register
Church Street earned its name.
The Broad Street–Church Street Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 2008. Several of the congregations below sit inside it, on a street that has carried the name long enough to become a matter of federal record.
A few of these congregations are older than most of the buildings downtown. First Baptist was organized in 1883, when a pastor from the rural Bunker Hill church and six believers met at the courthouse to start a Baptist church inside the city; they met at the courthouse, the Masonic hall, and the Methodist church before building on Dale Street in 1890. Columbia Presbyterian's commission was formed in April 1910. John the Baptist Missionary Baptist Church was founded in 1911. St. Stephen's Episcopal formed in 1954. Woodlawn began in 1953 in a rented storefront on High School Avenue.
Inside the city
The directory.
Calvary Baptist Church — Southern Baptist · 1309 Church Street · (601) 736-0970 · calvarycolumbia.org
Chapel of the Cross United Methodist Church — United Methodist · 1639 Highway 98 East · (601) 736-2182
Christian Family Worship Center — Non-denominational · 540 Sumrall Road · thefamilyworship.org
Church of Christ — Church of Christ · 1120 Broad Street · (601) 731-1874 · columbia.churchofchrist.info
The Church on Main — Non-denominational · 701 Main Street · (601) 736-7144 · thechurchonmain.org
Columbia Assembly Apostolic Church — Apostolic Pentecostal · 207 Arkansas Avenue
Columbia Presbyterian Church — Presbyterian (PCA) · 500 Church Street · (601) 736-4728 · columbiapca.org
Columbia Seventh-Day Adventist Church — Seventh-day Adventist · 1223 ½ Park Avenue, Columbia, MS 39429 · (601) 736-7777
Columbia Valley United Methodist Church — United Methodist · 1118 West Avenue · (601) 736-4516
Columbia Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Latter-day Saints · 83 West Lakeview Drive, Columbia, MS 39429 · (601) 622-2224
First Assembly of God — Assemblies of God · 1001 Park Avenue · (601) 736-5866
First Baptist Church — Southern Baptist · 900 High School Avenue · (601) 736-2608 · fbccolumbia.org
First United Methodist Church — United Methodist · 411 Church Street · (601) 736-7121 · fumccolumbia.org
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — Missionary Baptist · 141 Friendship Church Road · (601) 736-5460
Holy Trinity Catholic Church — Roman Catholic · 1429 North Park Avenue · (601) 736-3136
House of Prayer of God — Non-denominational · 300 Riverview Road
John the Baptist Missionary Baptist Church — Missionary Baptist · 500 Lumberton Road · (601) 736-5591 · jtbmbc.org
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — Jehovah's Witnesses · 47 Columbia Purvis Road, Columbia, MS 39429 · (601) 736-1845
Lakeview Church of God — Church of God · 130 Old Highway 98 East, Columbia, MS 39429 · (601) 736-0390
New Life Fellowship — Full Gospel · 212 Eagle Day Avenue · (601) 731-1877 · nlfchurches.org
North Columbia Baptist Church — Southern Baptist · 1527 North Main Street · (601) 736-8635 · ncbccolumbia.com
Owens Chapel Baptist Church — Missionary Baptist · 1223 Martin Luther King Drive · (601) 736-6493 · owenschapel.org
Sonrise Ministries — Non-denominational · 424 Bullis Street
South Columbia Seventh-day Adventist Church — Seventh-day Adventist · 307 Mississippi Avenue · (601) 310-1771 · southcolumbiams.adventistchurch.org
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church — Episcopal · 1300 Church Street · (601) 736-5496 · ststephenscolumbia.dioms.org
Temple Baptist Church — Baptist · 811 Rogers Avenue · (601) 736-1965
True Vine Baptist Church — Baptist · 275 South Main Street · (601) 736-2316
Unity Baptist Church — Baptist · 326 Mayson Street · (601) 736-8678
Victory Tabernacle Baptist Church — Baptist · 900 Gill Street · (601) 736-6211
Woodlawn Church — United Pentecostal · 1452 Highway 98 East · (601) 736-5128 · woodlawnchurch.cc
Open to all
Add your house of worship.
This directory is open to every congregation and faith community that meets in Columbia, whatever its tradition. There is no fee and no application — send us the name, the address, a phone number, and a link if you have one, and we will add it. The same goes for corrections to anything above, and for congregations just outside the city limits that residents would want to find.