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[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED

The Congregation

Every tradition's own claim, its own numbers, side by side, cited. No side is taken; every side is shown. Figures are DATA. Quoted texts are SCRIPTURE or TRADITION. Any reading of the numbers as prophecy is SPECULATION and is labeled on the card that makes it.

Seeded
Tradition
Instrument
The claimHouses of worshipAdherenceCenter of gravityAttacks on houses of worshipThe toll
YearNaN
19252025

Five-year steps, 1925–2025. A step with no defensible published figure renders as NO SOURCED FIGURE rather than an interpolated line.

Houses of worship — CHRISTIANITY

NaN — Churches

Registry counts per country on a five-year grid. A year with no defensible figure is a gap, not an interpolation. Registry counts include prayer rooms where the registry does; that is why they exceed purpose-built counts.

United Kingdom
NaN
No sourced figure
192517 × no sourced figure2025
  • 2000 — Brierley counts c. 50,660 churches across all denominations.
  • 2020 — c. 40,300 churches. The decline is in congregations closing, not in a single denomination.
SEEDEDSource: Brierley Consultancy, 'UK Church Statistics' vols. 1–4
Canada
NaN
No sourced figure
192518 × no sourced figure2025
  • 2020 — The National Trust for Canada estimated in 2019 that a third of Canada's roughly 27,000 faith buildings could close within a decade.
SEEDEDSource: Statistics Canada; National Trust for Canada faith-buildings assessment (2019)
United States
NaN
No sourced figure
192517 × no sourced figure2025
  • 2020 — c. 356,000 religious congregations of all kinds, the large majority Christian. Median congregation size fell from 137 (2000) to 65 (2020).
SEEDEDSource: Faith Communities Today; Hartford Institute congregational census
France
NaN
No sourced figure
192518 × no sourced figure2025
  • 2020 — 42,258 Catholic churches and chapels inventoried by the OPR, of which roughly 5,000 are listed monuments.
SEEDEDSource: Observatoire du patrimoine religieux; Ministère de la Culture
Germany
NaN
No sourced figure
192518 × no sourced figure2025
  • 2020 — Roughly 24,000 Catholic and 20,000 Protestant church buildings; both bodies report ongoing deconsecrations.
SEEDEDSource: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz; EKD Statistik
Source National registries and directory counts, cited per country
Records 5
DATASEEDED — SOURCE INTEGRATION PENDING