Denominational Profile

History

	Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1925)	continuedChurch of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth
		split into House of God Which is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1919) House of God Which is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Without Controversy (Keith Dominion) (1931)

The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth is a predominantly black Pentecostal church founded in 1903 by Mother Mary L. Tate, a pioneer female Pentecostal evangelist in the South.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1935	300	250	18,000
1937	-	265	18,625

Source

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]