St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel
St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel is a Lutheran church at 404 East Jefferson Street in Iowa City, IA 52245. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
St. Paul’s Lutheran Chapel is a congregation of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.
Part of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
404 East Jefferson Street, Iowa City, IA, 52245Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: +1-319-337-3652 · Website: https://stpaulic.com
St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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Latest from St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel Iowa City's YouTube channel: Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 64.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 29.3%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Iowa City city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 1,698 residents.
Churches near St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Collective — 0.1 mi away
- Geneva Campus Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wesley Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Friends Meeting — 0.2 mi away
- Chinese Evangelical Church in Iowa City (CECIIC) — 0.2 mi away
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Christ the King Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Southeastern Iowa Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away