Divining’s churches didn’t trickle in — they arrived in three discovery campaigns,
each with its own method and its own signature. The colors show what each net actually caught.
Christian churchother faith (mosque)not a worship orgunclassified
2021–2022577 churches49% not a church
uu 150 · unknown 133 · school 72 · ymca 50 · baptist 38 · catholic 21 · christian 20 · +13 more
The wide-net era — Early scraping with a Google-search permutation method — it cast a broad net and pulled in schools, YMCAs, and health orgs (red) alongside real churches. High reach, low precision.
2023276 churches
uu 276
The UU registry pass — Scraped the Unitarian Universalist registry, ingested every UU church, then crawled each of their websites. Single-source and clean — 100% on-target.
The denomination bulk import — After a Claude-assisted refactor, bulk-imported curated lists for each denomination. “Christian” is a catch-all that folds in Vineyard churches, Quaker / Friends meetings, and other smaller traditions not broken out separately.