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Worship in
Cobb County
By Ross Williams
rwilliams@mdjonline.com
You’re never far from a house of worship in Cobb County.
Christians make up the largest portion of the county’s
faithful, with Evangelical Protestants the largest Christian
group, according to the Association of Religion Data Archive.
The archive’s most recent data comes from 2010, when
Cobb’s population was 688,078.
Of that number, nearly 200,000 identified as Evangelicals,
and just over 105,000 were Southern Baptists, the
largest single religious group in Cobb. Those counted in the
data include all full members, their children and others who
regularly attend services.
According to the Smyrna Historical and Genealogical
Society, a man named the Rev. Thomas Burke established
the first church of any denomination in Cobb County in
present-day Smyrna in late 1832.
Services at Concord Primitive Baptist Church were
held in a log cabin schoolhouse located at what is now the
intersection of Concord Road and South Cobb Drive. The
church moved to the Mableton area in 1833.
It is now known as Concord Baptist Church and is located
on Floyd Road, four miles from its original cabin.
A year after that church was founded, the first religious
services were held in Marietta, shortly after its settlement,
according to historian Sarah Blackwell Gober Temple in her
book “The First Hundred Years: A Short History of Cobb
County, in Georgia.”
It was a “union meeting of all faiths,” Temple wrote, and
a union Sunday school was also organized. Meetings were
held in a log house on Husk Street.
Catholics are the second most populous group with
nearly 77,000 adherents, and mainline Protestants come in
third with just over 71,000, about 54,000 of whom belong to
the United Methodist Church.
Islam makes up the largest non-Christian religious
group in Cobb, with an estimated 4,087 adherents.
Conservative and Reform Judaism are the next two
non-Christian denominations with the highest number of
adherents, with 1,777 and 1,412 respectively. Jews who are
unaffiliated with a synagogue or who consider themselves
to be culturally Jewish are not counted in the survey, but
would likely represent the lion’s share of Jewish people
living in Cobb. They are counted among the “Unclaimed” in
the survey.
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