# Religious Organizations

Congregations, religious buildings, denomination taxonomy, and map-based discovery.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: operational

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://religiousorgs.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://religiousorgs.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/docs
- OpenAPI: https://religiousorgs.datasourceapi.com/openapi.yaml
- Status: https://religiousorgs.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-religiousorgs
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/religiousorgs

## Capabilities

- congregations
- denominations
- places-of-worship
- religion-taxonomy

## Provenance and freshness

- OpenStreetMap: Religious buildings and mapped places of worship. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
- Public organization sources: Denomination directories, LDS locator, RCMS, and a curated sourced religion taxonomy.

Update cadence: Weekly release checks and monthly archive-first refresh.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (70/100): OpenAPI, docs, and status are published, with incomplete examples and response schemas expected in some operations.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect source and release health.

```http
GET https://religiousorgs.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```