University Lutheran Church
University Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1611 Stanford Avenue in Palo Alto, CA 94306. It is one of 56 churches in Palo Alto, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
University Lutheran Church in Palo Alto came about in the turbulent 1960's, when the nation, the universities, and the churches were polarizing around issues like the Vietnam War, Women's Liberation, Sexual Freedom, and political and individual freedom from inherited values.
Serving since 1986
1611 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94306Website: https://www.universitylutheran.church/
University Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at University Lutheran Church
- Refugee Support
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The community around University Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Palo Alto city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 1,953 residents.
Churches near University Lutheran Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.8 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Stanford Memorial Church — 1 mi away in Stanford, CA
- Stanford Memorial Church — 1 mi away in Stanford, CA
- Highway Community Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Palo Alto — 1.3 mi away