List of places of worship in Crawley

Download coordinates as: The borough of Crawley, in West Sussex, England, has 45 churches, chapels and other buildings used specifically for worship.

The borough covers the New Town of Crawley, whose development began in the late 1940s, and Gatwick Airport—an international airport which has two multi-faith chapels of its own.

The New Town absorbed three villages with a long history of Christian worship, and later extensions to the boundary have brought other churches into the borough.

Several churches have listed status in view of their architectural and historical importance, but most places of worship date from the postwar era when the New Town was developed, and are of modest architectural merit: Nikolaus Pevsner stated in 1965 that those built up to that time were "either entirely uneventful or more often mannered and contorted, with odd spikes and curvy roofs".

The area around the villages of Three Bridges, Crawley and Ifield was selected by the British Government as the site for one of the developments proposed in the New Towns Act 1946.

[3] The Government set up a Development Corporation, headed by Sir Thomas Bennett, to coordinate the work.

[15] Ifield was a centre of Nonconformism in the 17th century:[16] its Friends Meeting House was built in 1676, when more than 25% of the village's residents were Dissenters.

[20] Two mosques were established in the town in the mid-1980s,[21] and the Ahmadiyya community founded a third in the former Elim Pentecostal church in Langley Green in 2012.

In January 2009 planning permission was granted for its demolition and replacement with a larger two-storey structure, but as of 2025 no work has started.

[30] Historic England or its predecessor English Heritage have awarded listed status to seven church buildings in the borough.

In 2021, 46.32% of people in England were Christian, 36.67% claimed no religious affiliation, 6.73% were Muslim, 1.81% were Hindu, 0.92% were Sikh, 0.48% were Jewish and 0.46% were Buddhist.

[20] The Crawley Gatwick Church of Christ, an independent, non-denominational congregation formed in 1996, meets at the community centre in Gossops Green.

[177][181] The Salvation Army established a barracks in 1902 in West Green,[174] but the Crawley branch is now based in Ifield: worship takes place at the neighbourhood's community centre.

[182] In 2006, a Pentecostalist community founded the Exodus Pentecostal Church, which worships at Tree House—Crawley's ancient manor house,[183] now owned by the Borough Council.

[177][186] The Vine Christian Fellowship meets in a hotel in Southgate and holds joint services in the New Life and Green Fields Baptist churches.