Based on legal data analyses and semi-directed interviews with pastors of Evangelical and Pentecostal communities, this article addresses the strategies framed by these communities in dealing with the constraints of the regulations to control places of worship both in France and in Quebec. First, it presents the legal systems with regard to the places of worship in the two national contexts. Then, it inquires into the different strategies the Evangelical communities work out in order to compensate for the effects of a legal system that is often blind to their claims, and political considerations that are sometimes unfavourable.