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 Today complete religious freedom is practiced albeit with still a large measure of Calvinism. The Church of Scotland claims the largest membership of any single religious denomination in Edinburgh as evidenced by a religion census of 2010.
+Here is a list of pre-1850 Edinburgh City parishes (Church of Scotland) and chapels, along with the then known names of all those other religious denominations having chapels or congregations within the City boundary:
+High Church -
+St Giles Cathedral
+The Old Church (South aisle of St. Giles')
+Tolbooth Parish
+Trinity College Chapel - 1685
+Lady Glenorchy Chapel - 1785
+New North Church
+Tron Church - 1673
+Scottish Baptists, and Original Burghers.
+Magdalene Chapel Cowgate -
+New Grey Friars - 1721
+Old Grey Friars - 1722
+St. Andrew - 1785
+St George Episcopal Chapel (1794)
+St. George - 1814
+Lady Yester's Parish - 1647
+St. Mary - 1824
+St. Stephen - 1828
+Canongate - 1688
+St. Cuthbert -
+Gardner's-crescent Chapel
+Morningside Chapel
+Greenside Leith Walk
+St. John -
+Besides the above churches, there were places for worship for the Free Church (at least 10), United Secession (3), Relief Church, Reformed Presbyterians, Original Burghers, Bereans, Original Seceders (2), the Society of Friends (Quakers), Baptists (4), Wesleyans (4), Independents (5), Glassites, Jews, Unitarians, United Christian Church, three Roman Catholic chapels, and Whitehouse St Margaret Convent - 1836.
+Episcopal chapels are--
+St James Chapel (1820)
+St John's Episcopal Chapel (1817)
+St Paul's Episcopal Chapel (1818)
+St Peter's Episcopalian Chapel,
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