Trends · data through September 2026

Christian Places of Worship in California

Iceflower tracks 926 stores from 809 Christian place of worship chains in California. Cornerstone Church grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sandals Church and Calvary Chapel.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
809
Tracked stores
926
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Christian place of worship chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Cornerstone Church and Sandals Church sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Cornerstone Church - +5.5%
2 Sandals Church ▲1 -0.3%
3 Calvary Chapel - -0.9%
4 Eastside Christian Church - -6.8%
5 Casa De Oracion - -7.8%
6 Victory Outreach - -8.8%
7 Church of Scientology - -12.4%
8 Iglesia Universal - -14.2%
9 Awaken Church ▼1 -52.0%
  • Sandals Church
  • Discovery Church
  • Awaken Church
  • Skyline Church
  • Bayside Church
  • Cathedral of Christ the Light
  • Orchard Church
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

926 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 46 of the 926 stores (5%); 747 of the 809 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked other stores here are Christian places of worship, against 5% across the United States.

  • Sandals Church (3)
  • Discovery Church (1)
  • Awaken Church (5)
  • Skyline Church (1)
  • Bayside Church (3)
  • Cathedral of Christ the Light (1)
  • Orchard Church (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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