Christian churches per capita in the Middle East. Shaded by the total number of Christian churches and colored by the most frequent church type, ties broken by other administrative data or the largest building when not available.
Based on my own hand collection of 5,500+ church locations cobbled together from OSM, Google Maps, and denominational webpages. Likely an undercount in less indexed countries and more rural areas. Some may have been destroyed since source data was last updated.
Re-uploaded with a larger key.
titiennegeo on
Thats an awesome map
Aegeansunset12 on
Turkey persecutes Christians
LilFlicky on
You some kind of GIS wizard? Wow
Assyrian_Nation on
Never thought anyone could accurately depict the church diversity in Iraq! Bartella as Syriac orthodox, Bakhdede as Syriac Catholic, Armenian in Avzrog etc 👏 great job op
ConversationGlum8623 on
missing tons of churches in Iran and turkey that I know of. op let me know I can give you the data to make a new map maybe
iswhhrxi on
Qatar (Doha) also has Catholic churches though…
[because of Filipino migrant workers]
adamkrsnak on
Is that Greek Orthodox on Sinai?
EschoolThrowaway on
Missing a TON in Iran
dosmns on
Does the map only reflect operational churches? Because there’s tons of churches in the occupied north of Cyprus, but only few are operational (priests and displaced Cypriots will travel north for mass on Sundays to some churches that have been restored using their own money). Those look like the ones depicted on this map (e.g. Apostolos Andreas on the very northmost tip).
Unfortunately, the majority are completely looted/dilapidated and non-operational. A few were desecrated and turned to mosques or gyms by the illegal settlers.
![Christian churches of the Middle East [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lq37ofb43rhg1-1536x1326.png "Christian churches of the Middle East [OC]")
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Christian churches per capita in the Middle East. Shaded by the total number of Christian churches and colored by the most frequent church type, ties broken by other administrative data or the largest building when not available.
Based on my own hand collection of 5,500+ church locations cobbled together from OSM, Google Maps, and denominational webpages. Likely an undercount in less indexed countries and more rural areas. Some may have been destroyed since source data was last updated.
Re-uploaded with a larger key.
Thats an awesome map
Turkey persecutes Christians
You some kind of GIS wizard? Wow
Never thought anyone could accurately depict the church diversity in Iraq! Bartella as Syriac orthodox, Bakhdede as Syriac Catholic, Armenian in Avzrog etc 👏 great job op
missing tons of churches in Iran and turkey that I know of. op let me know I can give you the data to make a new map maybe
Qatar (Doha) also has Catholic churches though…
[because of Filipino migrant workers]
Is that Greek Orthodox on Sinai?
Missing a TON in Iran
Does the map only reflect operational churches? Because there’s tons of churches in the occupied north of Cyprus, but only few are operational (priests and displaced Cypriots will travel north for mass on Sundays to some churches that have been restored using their own money). Those look like the ones depicted on this map (e.g. Apostolos Andreas on the very northmost tip).
Unfortunately, the majority are completely looted/dilapidated and non-operational. A few were desecrated and turned to mosques or gyms by the illegal settlers.
The only functioning Armenian Apostolic church left in eastern Turkey (historical Western Armenia) is [Surp Giragos Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Giragos_Armenian_Church).
This map is not accurate. If destroyed and abandoned churches were counted, this map would look very, very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cultural_heritage_in_Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Turkey