The Amish (Old Order)

Denomination·Founded 1693 CE·est. 410,955 in North America as of June 2025 — adults and children — in 3,114 church districts and 684 settlements across 32 states and three Canadian provinces. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. The population has roughly doubled since 2000 and doubles about every twenty years.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Amish (Old Order)

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Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Amish (Old Order) Discussion

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when All 1 →
Weekly
Church in the house. No steeple, no building, no committee: the benches arrive in a wagon and the service happens in whoever's turn it is. Singing runs about twenty seconds a syllable, so the first hymn can take fifteen minutes, and the meal afterwards is eaten in shifts because the house is not large enough for everyone at once. When Biweekly — every other Sunday, roughly three hours from mid-morningWho The whole district, twenty to forty households Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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