Newburyport, MA 01950 is home to a number of religious congregations, including Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist and nondenominational Christian churches. The oldest is the First Congregational Church of Newburyport, founded in 1635. It continues to be an active church today and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other churches include St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (also historic), Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church, and Grace Baptist Church which serves both English and Spanish-speaking communities. For those interested in exploring spirituality regardless of denominational affiliation, there are meditation groups that meet weekly at several of the area churches as well as at local yoga studios. With such a diverse array of religious congregations available in Newburyport there is sure to be something for everyone's spiritual needs.
57.7% of the people in Newburyport (zip 01950) are religious:
- 0.8% are Baptist
- 1.6% are Episcopalian
- 48.1% are Catholic
- 0.4% are Lutheran
- 0.7% are Methodist
- 0.9% are Pentecostal
- 1.9% are Presbyterian
- 0.3% are Church of Jesus Christ
- 1.3% are another Christian faith
- 1.2% are Judaism
- 0.2% are an eastern faith
- 0.1% affilitates with Islam
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According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.