Editing DuPage County, Illinois (section)

===Religion===
[[File:First Church of Lombard (Lombard, Illinois) 05.JPG|thumb|upright|The [[First Church of Lombard]] is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in DuPage County, Illinois|National Register of Historic Places]].]]
DuPage County has several hundred Christian churches, and especially around Wheaton is a [[Bible Belt]], with [[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College]] and various other evangelical Christian colleges, and publishing houses including [[InterVarsity Press]], [[Good News Publishers|Crossway]], [[Tyndale House]], [[Christianity Today]] and other smaller ones in the area.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldsborough |first1=Bob |title=Churches in DuPage on Growth Track|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-05-04-9405040287-story.html |access-date=October 11, 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=May 4, 1994}}</ref> Notable churches include [[Megachurch|megachurches]] like Community Christian Church in Naperville, [[Wheaton Bible Church]], Christ Church in Oak Brook, and other large congregations like [[College Church]]. There is also a large [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] population, the county being part of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois|Diocese of Joliet]] and the [[National Shrine of St Therese]] in Darien. There is also the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] in Glendale Heights.

The [[Theosophical Society in America]] in Wheaton, the North American headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society Adyar]], provides lectures and classes on [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophy]], [[meditation]], [[yoga]], [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern]] and [[New Age]] [[spirituality]]. [[Islam]]ic [[mosque]]s are located in [[Villa Park, Illinois|Villa Park]], Naperville (two mosques), Glendale Heights, Willowbrook, Westmont, Lombard, Bolingbrook, Addison, Woodale, West Chicago, and unincorporated Glen Ellyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islamiccenterofnaperville.org/|title=Home|website=islamiccenterofnaperville.org|access-date=May 8, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309012952/http://www.islamiccenterofnaperville.org/|archive-date=March 9, 2018}}</ref> There are [[Hinduism|Hindu]] temples in Bartlett, Bensenville, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Itasca and Medinah, and an [[Arya Samaj]] center in West Chicago. There is a [[Nichiren Shōshū]] [[Zen|Zen Buddhist]] temple in [[West Chicago, Illinois|West Chicago]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/176.html|title=Buddhists|website=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org|access-date=May 8, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021031754/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/176.html|archive-date=October 21, 2017}}</ref> and a [[Theravada]] Buddhist Temple, called the Buddha-Dharma Meditation Center, in [[Willowbrook, DuPage County, Illinois|Willowbrook]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://sites.google.com/view/wbd/home |publisher=Wat Buddha Dhamma |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref> There is also a [[Reform Judaism|Reform synagogue]], Congregation Etz Chaim,<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://congetzchaim.org/aboutus/ |publisher=Congregation Etz Chaim |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref> in Lombard and an unaffiliated one in Naperville, called Congregation Beth Shalom.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.napershalom.org/about-cbs/who-we-are/ |publisher=Congregation Beth Shalom |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref>