As the city grew, churches were organized to serve its religious needs. Minutes of the Baptist Church, dated June 1867, noted that a committee was appointed to confer with the Methodist and Christian Churches to select where a union church might be built. By a deed dated October 14, 1869, the Knob City Land Company conveyed Lot Number 106 in Cave City to a trustee from each of these churches – Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian and Methodist. Shortly thereafter a church was built.

Following the destruction of the Great Storm of 1870, the Methodist and Christian Churches immediately erected a new Union Church which tradition says is the present sanctuary of the Christian Church. Each church had its own pastor and worshipped separately.

The Presbyterian Church evidently failed to exercise any option in the Community Church. The Baptists constructed a separate building after the storm of 1870. The Methodist Church continued as a partner in the Union Endeavor, selling out their half in 1906 in favor of building a separate structure. Although this left the Christian Church in complete possession of the original property at that time, the deed was never completely cleared in sole ownership of the Christian congregation until 1955.

In 1995, Wayne Hensley became the interim minister of the Cave City Christian Church and was called full-time to minister to the congregation in 1997. He continues to serve as the Minister of the church to date. The church building was extensively damaged by fire in April 2000; a new facility was constructed at the current site and dedicated in September 2001.

The Methodists sold out their claims to the union property in 1905 and erected their present church in 1906 on the corner of Duke Street and Third Street – the former site of the city reservoir – on land purchased April 23, 1906 for $1.00 from the Cave City Board of Trustees. The church building was started and almost completed during the pastorate of the late Rev. E. F. Goodson, whose tenure ranged from 1904 to 1906. He is believed to be the first pastor of the new church. The corner stone of the building bears the date of 1906. The Church severed its connection to a charge and became a station church with a full-time ministry in 1949.

The Cave City Baptist Church was originally the New Hope Baptist Church, and first met in 1820. The old church building stood on the farm owned by Mr. Charlie Monroe, one mile east of Jenny. Today, there is very little left of the community and no trace of the New Hope Church that met there. In 1867, perhaps out of convenience, but more likely due to the possibilities of a greater ministry, the church moved to Cave City. That move marked the beginning of the Cave City Baptist Church of today.

The lot on Broadway and Second Street (where Caveland Baptist Church is now) was bought and a frame structure much like the Christian Church was erected thereon. This structure was struck by lightning and destroyed in the resultant fire during Sunday morning services in 1890; a brick building was erected at 207 Broadway Street to replace it, and in 1986 the church was moved to a new worship center to accommodate its growing congregation.

No records are available for the fate of the Presbyterians after the great wind except that a school met in their church for a short time in 1888.

The Church of Christ met at Salem in 1905, by the efforts of W. T. Dunagan. A few years later they sold to the Baptist and met in Lee Seminary School House, until the building at Foster’s Grove, located about a mile south of Cave City, was completed. This building was built by the members doing most of the work, even to the building of the church furniture. It was completed in 1921 and the members met there for the first time on the first Sunday in January 1922.

The building at Foster’s Grove was moved into Cave City on the same lot that the church now owns in March 1941. From 1941 to 1950 the attendance increased until it was necessary to move to a larger building. The old building was moved to the back of the lot, and a new brick building was erected with a seating capacity of 300. The new building was completed in 1952.

Owens Chapel Baptist Church was established about 1867. The first Association at this church was held in August 1887. This log building was destroyed by the Louisville cyclone in 1890. The present building was erected on 31W in 1891 and dedicated in 1893. Many renovations have taken place – central heat and air, a picnic shelter, paving of the parking lot and the purchase of a church van, to name a few. Owens Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, as it is now named, has just completed a major renovation and addition.

Salem Church was established in 1801 in a small brick building at the site of the present facility. It was a union church of Baptists and Christians. Many colored slaves were members, and the building had a balcony for them to sit in. The first business meeting was held on Saturday in April 1834, the first Association was held at Salem in 1841. Around 1910 the Baptists bought out the Christians, and since then it has been called Salem Baptist Church. In May 1943 the frame church building was destroyed by fire, and one year from that date, the present brick building was ready to occupy.

The Cave City Church of the Nazarene was begun in the year 1948, holding prayer meetings in members’ homes. In the year 1949, services were held in the City Hall. On October 7, 1950, the new frame church building was dedicated.

Prior to 1953, the needs of the Catholics of the area were looked after by Reverend John L. Wheatley; in the early 1950’s, it was decided by the archdiocese that there should be a Catholic Church in every county in Kentucky. In 1953, a mission church was built on Highway 31W, about ½ mile from Horse Cave and about three miles north of Cave City. This church would serve the Cave City area as well as Hart County.

The cornerstone of the new edifice was blessed and laid by the Very Rev. John L. Wheatley on March 11, 1954. The names of the 25 members belonging to eleven families in the area were encased in the cornerstone. Its unusual name, Our Lady of the Caves, was chosen because of the church’s proximity to the cave area and its heavy tourist traffic. The first Mass was celebrated June 21, 1953.