The last five years we have been trying to find the smallest church in America. To quality a church must be open to the general public for worship and the doors unlocked so we can go inside. In other words, dollhouse type churches don't quality and neither do churches built for decorative purposes. Below are four churches that quality as "smallest" and they were found in Iowa, Georgia, Arizona and North Dakota.

West of Festina, Iowa on a gravel county road, among cornfields, we found a small Catholic church claiming to be the "World's Smallest Church." The church was built in 1855 and measures 14 x 20 feet. It has a beautiful interior with four pews that seat a congregation of eight people but there is room for two more pews so a total of twelve people could be seated.

In Georgia on highway 17, east of I-95 exit 67, we spotted a sign noting the "Smallest Church in America" so we stopped to check it out. It is a beautiful church in the woods with a gorgeous interior. The building is 10 x 15 feet which makes it smaller that the church in Iowa. It seats twelve people snugly.

A few miles north of Yuma, Arizona on highway 95 we found a church built for immigrant farmers sitting in a field. The beautiful interior is spartanly furnished with seating for twelve friendly people. The church doesn't claim to be the smallest anything, but at 9 x 15 feet it is smaller than the two churches above.

The smallest church we have found is south of Stanton, North Dakota. Measuring 8 x 14 feet, Deapolis Wayside Chapel seats eight people in four small pews. Linda and Gloria and Don Martin stood in front of the church to show its size. So far this is the smallest church we have found in our travels, but we are still looking and may find more interesting small churches.