St. Sophia Orthodox Church
St. Sophia Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 541 3rd Avenue in Bethel, AK 99557. It is one of 12 churches in Bethel.
Part of National Conference
541 3rd Avenue, Bethel, AK, 99557Service times
- Saturday 5pm–5:45pm
- Sunday 9:30am–11:15am
Phone: +1-907-545-7828 · Website: https://oca.org/parishes/oca-ak-betssc
St. Sophia Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 49 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Alaska — 2,098 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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Latest from Orthodox Church in America's YouTube channel: Hierarchical Divine Liturgy | July, 17 2025 (all videos).
The community around St. Sophia Orthodox Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (11.0–18.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Bethel city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,052 residents.
Churches near St. Sophia Orthodox Church
- Bethel United Pentecostal Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel Independent Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel Moravian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Alaska Moravian Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bethel Covenant Church — 1.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.2 mi away
- Church Alaska — 1.4 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Table of Grace Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Matthew Mission — 5.9 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Saint Matthew Mission — 5.9 mi away
- St. James Orthodox Church — 6.9 mi away in Napaskiak, AK
- St. Nicholas Church — 11.8 mi away in Kwethluk, AK