As attendance at religious services dwindles and interest in fixer-upper homes increases, churches may seem promising. Here's what to know.

Those most likely to attend house churches, according to phone interviews with more than 5,000 adults nationwide, are men, families that home-school their children, residents of the West and ...

Agathos meets in house churches twice a month. The other two Sundays of the month, it meets as a large group at 43 W. 4th Avenue in Victorian Village in rented space in the lower level of Christ ...

DALLAS — To get to church on a recent Sunday morning, the Yeldell family walked no farther than their own living room to greet fellow worshippers. The members of this “house church” are part ...

But somewhere along the way, adherents say, something valuable was lost. The house church movement, they say, satisfies the craving for a more intimate worship experience lost in the mega-church maze.

House churches can be the answer.” FindAHouseChurch.com believes that the church needs to be relational, and so the site is designed to help align people with a like-minded community.

In the 1950s, the Catholic and main Protestant churches were turned into branches of the religious-affairs administration. House churches have an unclear status, neither banned nor fully approved of.

Below, the unidentified church is built in and onto a very old house on Walnut Street, south of Broadway. Not far away, on Hickory Street, Blessed Ministries Church occupies a classic 1910-era home.