Basic Information

The Church of the East, the ancient Christian Church of Iran, was organized in America in 1940.

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	17	18	+1 (5.9%)
Adherents	34,646	35,118	+472 (1.4%)

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]