Basic Information

The Old Order Amish Mennonite Church was founded in Switzerland in the seventeenth century by Mennonites under the leadership of Jacob Amman. Amish first came to America in the eighteenth century and have become known for the horse and buggy culture they perpetuate.

History

	Old Order Amish Mennonite Church	continuedOld Order Amish Mennonite Church
		split into Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches (1927) Conservative Amish Mennonite Conference (1910)

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	830	1,290	+460 (55.4%)
Adherents	121,750	96,986	-24,764 (-20.3%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]