The Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America maintains offices in downtown Atlanta; ELCA parishes are numerous throughout the metro area.
There are eight United Church of Christ congregations in the Atlanta metro area, one of which, First Congregational, at the corner of Courtland Street and John Wesley Dobbs Ave. downtown, is noted as the favored church of the city's black elite including Andrew Young, for its famous minister Henry H. Proctor and for President Taft having visited in 1898.
[5] Traditional African-American denominations such as the National Baptist Convention and the African Methodist Episcopal Church are strongly represented in the area.
[9] In contrast to some other Southern cities, Atlanta's large, and rapidly growing, Roman Catholic population is a trend which didn't take shape until the 1990s.
[note 1] The city hosts the Greek Orthodox Annunciation Cathedral, the see of the Metropolis of Atlanta and its bishop, Alexios.
[citation needed] The headquarters for The Salvation Army's United States Southern Territory is located in Atlanta.
[18] There are eruvim in the Virginia Highland and Toco Hills neighborhoods inside the Perimeter, as well as in Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Alpharetta in the North metro area.
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta in adjacent Lilburn, Georgia is currently the largest Hindu temple in the world outside of India.