A new report from Christian charity, Housing Justice, said that this also includes a separate 70,000 volunteering attendances.
The data showed that around 500 churches opened their doors to house over two thousand homeless people and voluntary work has been valued at a quarter of a million pounds.
Alison Gelder, Housing Justice Chief Executive said that: "I think it is vital that churches stand in the gaps left by statutory services as well as arguing and campaigning for those services to be improved (or even for funding to be restored)."
Prior to May's Mayoral elections in London the charity plans to send a copy of the Shelter Impact report to all the candidates.
Data was taken from 34 night shelters and more than 2,000 people were spoken to.
Alison Gelder continued: "As we approach Christmas, as a Christian charity, we believe shelter users are marked with the imprint of God."
Housing Justice said that the homeless people featured in the report are mainly single men over the age of 17 but under 60 - around 86% of those asked fitted in this catergory.
The charity said that it is because there is no duty on Local Authorities to provide accommodation for people who are not in priority need, for example not a minor or immediately vulnerable.
Almost one in five guests in the report are people from outside the UK and are not eligible for benefits and struggle to find any official help.
Dr Dave Landrum, Director of Advocacy at the Evangelical Alliance said: "The Evangelical Alliance welcomes the Housing Justice report on volunteering for night shelters.
"While the report is heart-rending in terms of the scale of the issue of homelessness in the UK, it is also heart-warming to see the scale of the response of the church with nearly a quarter of a million hours volunteered in shelters.
"I hope this report helps to dispel the perceptions of homeless people, and also encourages more practical support for the vital work of night shelters."
One Night Shelter volunteer said: "Almost everybody that I have come into contact with doing this work have had their attitudes to the homeless seriously changed. One of the problems that you come across time and time again with this sort of thing from the outside community, from the neighbours, is that they have real, real fears about the homeless - almost Conrad-ian part of darkness."
