Australian Capital Territory

What Australian Capital Territory does

Australian Churches (operating under the australianchurches.net domain with a Weebly mirror at australianchurches.weebly.com) is a free, informational web directory that lists Christian churches across all eight Australian states and territories — Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. The Australian Capital Territory section, focused on in this record, catalogs more than 100 individual congregations spanning Anglican, Baptist, Uniting, Presbyterian, Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Salvation Army, and other denominations, indexed both by church name and by postcode. Each entry links outward to the church's own website, and a submission/entry-or-amendment workflow exists for churches to add or correct listings, contingent on agreement with a statement of faith. The site has been continuously referenced under the australianchurches.net banner since 1997, with the ACT page timestamped as amended on 20 November 2014 and several other state pages refreshed through mid-2015.

The technical build is minimal: a Weebly-hosted static site with hand-edited HTML pages, no published mobile app, no API surface, and no third-party integrations. Discovery is driven by search engine optimization (churches are indexed by name and postcode) and a Facebook page (facebook.com/www.australianchurches.net) used for promotional sharing. Ownership, governance, and team structure are not disclosed in the source material; the directory is presented as an informational resource rather than a commercial entity, and the firmographics record shows 20 employees and a Lyneham, ACT city attribution that is not corroborated by any other data point.

The business model is non-commercial: listings are provided at no cost to churches, no pricing or paid tiers are disclosed, and there is no advertising inventory, sponsorship arrangement, or data-licensing revenue visible in the source data. The directory effectively functions as a community utility for church discoverability rather than a venture-backable business, and consequently there is no funding history, no investor base, no M&A activity, and no partnerships disclosed.

Name

Australian Capital Territory

Legal name

Australian Churches

Website

https://australianchurches.weebly.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Australian Churches is a free, non-commercial online directory listing Christian churches across all eight Australian states and territories, organized by name and postcode, serving community members seeking local congregations. Founded 1997.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Church Directory

NAICS

Religious Organizations (813110)

akta.pro primary industry

Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB)

Keywords

• Church directory service
• Online church listings
• Denominational church directory
• Church finder service
• Religious organization listings

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Australian Capital Territory is the ACT section of the Australian Churches directory, a free online directory that lists Christian churches by name and postcode across the Australian Capital Territory. The page provides an alphabetical, denomination-spanning catalogue of over 100 churches (Anglican, Baptist, Uniting, Presbyterian, Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Salvation Army, etc.) for community members to locate a local church. The service is informational only, with no fees charged to listed churches or to users searching the directory.

Product overview

The website is a directory service listing churches across Australian states and territories, including the Australian Capital Territory. It organizes churches by name and postcode, providing a searchable resource for locating Christian churches in various locations. The service does not represent a commercial technology product but rather a informational directory.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Australian Capital Territory Church Directory Searchable online directory of Christian churches across the Australian Capital Territory, organized alphabetically by church name and by postcode. Lists over 100 churches spanning multiple denominations (Anglican, Baptist, Uniting, Presbyterian, Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Salvation Army, etc.) and links each entry to the church's own website where available. Free for both listed churches and community members searching for a local church.
• ACT Churches by Name Listing Alphabetical index of ACT churches by name, enabling users to locate a specific church directly. Free, public-access listing maintained as part of the Australian Churches directory.
• ACT Churches by Postcode Listing Geographic index of ACT churches organized by Australian postcode, helping community members find churches near them. Free, public-access listing maintained as part of the Australian Churches directory.
• Church Entry or Amendment Submission Self-service submission process that allows churches to apply for inclusion in the ACT directory or amend an existing listing, contingent on agreement with the site's statement of faith. Free to use.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• ChurchsDirectory.com: Smaller online church directory focused on listing Christian congregations by location. Closely comparable in scope and operating model to Australian Churches.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse Locator: Faith-tradition-run locator that helps users find meetinghouses by geography. Comparable as a denomination-specific online church-finding utility.

Broad incumbents

• Yelp: Broad local business directory including places of worship with reviews and hours. Adjacent directory model that competes for general local-discovery intent, including for religious organizations.
• Google Maps: General-purpose mapping and local search product that surfaces churches via name and location queries with continuously updated data, reviews, and directions. The dominant substitute for any niche directory.

Regional players

• Catholic Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn: Regional Catholic parish finder serving the same ACT catchment. Competes for the same seeker audience but only within the Catholic tradition.
• Church of the Nazarene Australia Churches: Denomination-run locator covering Nazarene churches across Australia. Comparable role to Australian Churches at a single-denomination scale within the same geography.
• NSW/ACT Baptist Churches Find a Church: Regional Baptist denomination's own church-locator tool. Competes for the same church-seeking audience within a single denomination slice of the directory's coverage.
• Anglican Church Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn: Denomination-specific church finder for Anglican congregations in the same ACT/NSW region that Australian Churches covers; serves the same end user from a narrower denominational lens.

Direct peers

• ChurchFinder.com: US-based online church directory searchable by location and denomination. Most directly comparable to Australian Churches as a denomination- and geography-aggregated directory of Christian congregations.
• FaithStreet: Online and mobile church finder covering multiple denominations with searchable filters. Comparable product format and free-listing model serving community church discovery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/www.australianchurches.net
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/australian-capital-territory

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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