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No, it legitimately cannot gather faith, or at least the amount of faith it is able to gather has been reducing drastically because you can't pray to it directly, you can only really vaguely believe in "the Hakurei shrine". As nobody (or, very few people) know its name and Reimu doesn't know its rituals, it is faithless. Furthermore Reimu is just not good at being a shrine maiden for the shrine. This is explained in UFO, and is the reason Kanako tries to take the shrine over. When facing Reimu she also implies that the God's faith is currently at zero, but that's likely banter. And for what it's worth, Reimu is very worried about it at the time.

In UFO Byakuren also claims that it has no faith/worship, as after encountering it she remarks
>「この神社……全然信仰されてないでしょ？」
>This shrine... isn't believed in at all, is it?
This is translated lighter in the fantranslations as "Nobody... Really worships at this shrine, do they?" though the Japanese is instead more of an absolute remark, not implying that it's even believed in by degrees.