First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at 1140 Cowper Street in Palo Alto, CA 94301. It is one of 55 churches in Palo Alto, and one of 3 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
Our vision is to grow towards becoming an intergenerational, multi-ethnic, anti-racist, geographically and economically diverse Christian community gathered together and sustained by creative worship, biblically-inspired learning, empathetic ministry, nonviolently disrupting injustice in the world.
Wheelchair accessible
1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301Website: https://fpcpaloalto.org/
First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 2,200 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: 34.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Palo Alto city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 1,953 residents.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Saint Ann — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Highway Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Albert the Great Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church of Silicon Valley — 0.6 mi away