Basic Information

The Regular Baptist church dates to the 1854 organization of the New Salem Association by Baptists who rejected the innovations introduced among American Baptists during the nineteenth century.

History

	Regular Baptists	continuedRegular Baptists
		merged intoUnited Baptists (1786)

Snapshot

	1990	2000^*	Growth/Decline
Congregations	41	n.a.	--
Adherents	4,722	n.a.	--

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.

^* Group did not participate in 2000 RCMS, so 2000 data is unavailable.

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]