Deletion of List of Congregational churches

Comment: The topic is notable per , being the subject of extensive documentation and scholarship such as ''http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1QU9AAAAIAAJ The First Congregational Churches''.  The claims that categories are a superior way of managing such information are both false and contrary to the guideline  which states explicitly that, "''the "category camp" should not delete or dismantle Wikipedia's lists''".  Whether and how large lists are split and organised as a hierarchy is a matter of ordinary editing so that the edit history is preserved.  Deletion is quite inappropriate and |AFD is not cleanup
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:CLN||WP:NOTCLEANUP)