I built a website from scratch to make it easier for users to find Catholic mass within the United States by maintaining an index of every church I could find with a website, and automating a process to attempt to extract information like Mass Times/Language, Confession Times, and Parking Availability.
It is free to use and does not require any sign up/in, and was wondering if I could share it on this subreddit.
Thanks for sharing this. I entered our zip code and got good results, including our parish.
Having the street address is useful because before traveling I can look it up on Google maps and see exactly where it is, how far it is from where we’ll be staying, and what transit is nearby.
In the past, when traveling, I have used Masstimes.org, but the results are kind of clunky. When I entered our zip code, it gave Drexel Hill, where we live, but also Pilgrim Gardens, which is a shopping center. It gives a map of every Catholic Church within about 5 miles, but the list is according to Mass time, with 6:30 Masses listed first: our very own parish, plus others that are miles away, then it lists 8:00 Masses, and so on.
I added Church Finder to my Internet favorites.
Thank you so much for testing! I am byond happy to hear it was helpful!
You can also click each parish header to open a map view to route through Google Maps/apple maps.
Most of the value add I think I can provide is convenience and automatic detecting which is “good” but definitely still rely heavily on users suggesting updates when data is considered stale/invalid.