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Charleston County, SC Churches

  • Springfield Baptist Church

    The Springfield Baptist Church is one of the first, if not the oldest, remaining freely organized Black Baptist churches in the area. The Springfield Baptist Church was established as St. Andrew'

  • Second Presbyterian Church - Charleston

    This building is the oldest edifice of this faith in the historic section of Charleston. Built in 1809 by James and John Gordon and dedicated on April 3, 1811

  • St. Matthew's Lutheran Church

    The second Lutheran congregation organized in Charleston in 1840, primarily for German speaking settlers. The present Gothic building, with its 297-foot steeple, was erected in 1872

  • Mt. Zion AME Church

    The first brick church building owned by African Americans in Charleston was purchased in 1882 by members of Emanuel AME Church to alleviate its overcrowded conditions. The 54th & 55

  • St. Johannes Lutheran Church

    Built in 1841, this church is known for its simplistic beauty and stained glass. It'

  • Grace Episcopal Church

    By the mid-19th century, the Anglican Church in South Carolina had evolved into a strong Episcopal Diocese. By 1846

  • St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church & Graveyard

    It was established in 1789

  • French Huguenot Church

    The French Protestant Church of Charleston was founded in approximately 1681 by Huguenot refugees from the Protestant persecutions in France. About 450 Huguenots had settled in South Carolina'

  • First (Scots) Presbyterian Church

    Founded by Caledonian immigrants in 1731. The first congregation was made up of 12 Scottish families who left the Independent Church of Charles Towne in 1731. The present church, built in 1813

  • Emanuel Ame Church

    This brick Gothic Revival-style church with its tall steeple replaced an earlier 1872 church badly damaged by the 1886 earthquake. Built in 1891

  • Central Baptist Church

    Thought to be one of the first churches founded and built solely by African Americans in Charleston, Central was designed by black architect John P. Hutchinson and completed in 1893

  • Old Bethel United Methodist Church

    Old Bethel is the third oldest church building surviving in Charleston. Built 1797-1807

  • Bethel United Methodist Church

    Charleston's first Methodist congregation purchased this parcel of land in 1795 and erected the church here in 1797. Black and white congregations worshiped here until 1851

  • St. Michael's Episcopal Church

    In 1751 St. Michael’s Parish was created and the cornerstone laid for the new church the next year opening in 1761

  • Circular Congregation Church & Cemetery

    Built about 1806, this small Greek Revival temple with graceful twin stairways and notable wrought-iron railings is a good example of Robert Mills'

  • First Baptist Church

    First Baptist Church originated in Kittery, Maine, in 1682. Under the leadership of William Screven, the church moved to Charleston in 1696. An earlier meeting house (c. 1701)

  • St. John's Lutheran Church

    St. John's Lutheran Church, established in 1742, is the "mother church" of Lutheranism in South Carolina. Located in Charleston's Historic District, the present church edifice'

  • Unitarian Church

    The building, begun in 1722 and interrupted by the Revolution, was completed in 1787. In 1852

  • Old St. Andrew's Parish Church

    Established in 1706

  • St. Philip's Episcopal Church

    Established in 1670, this "mother church" of the Province originally stood on the site where St. Michael's stands today. The present building (c. 1835-1838)

  • Church Street Inn

    Located near Dock Street Theatre, Lowcountry Legends Music Hall and other attractions; Convenient access to Charleston'