Kansas City's top religion is White Mainline Protestant, followed closely by unaffiliated. (Graphic: Jessie Howe | Flatland)
Kansas City's top religion is White Mainline Protestant, followed closely by unaffiliated. (Graphic: Jessie Howe | Flatland)

Major Religions in the Metro

June 23, 2016  |  Jesse Howe  |  1 min read

Kansas City is home to a wide array of people and faiths. A 2015 survey by the American Values Atlas, a project of the Public Religion Research Institute, interviewed 560 Kansas Citians to create a landscape of the most-practiced religions for the area. Learn about its methodology here. We mapped those responses below.

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— This story is part of the KCPT and Hale Center for Journalism project Beyond Belief, a series of stories and discussions about faith in our city. The documentary, “Beyond Belief: Religion in Kansas City,” premiers at 7:30 p.m. tonight, June 23, on KCPT. The project is part of Localore: Finding America, created by AIR, a Boston-based network of independent public media producers. Principle funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

 

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