Church of the Holy City
Church of the Holy City is a Swedenborgian church at 1611 16th Street Northwest in Washington, DC 20009. It is one of 862 churches in Washington.
1611 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20009Service times
- Sunday 5pm · Worship
Phone: (202) 462-6734 · Website: http://swedenborgcenter.org/
Church of the Holy City is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 11 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across District of Columbia — 992 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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Latest from Church of The Holy City's YouTube channel: "The Root of America's Civility Problem" | Sep 13, 2026 | With Rev. Rich Tafel (all videos).
The community around Church of the Holy City
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is 3,000 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: 32.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near Church of the Holy City
- Mid-atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Foundry United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Founding Church of Scientology — 0.2 mi away
- Universalist National Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Apostle Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of the City of Washington — 0.2 mi away
- John Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- Third Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 1.1 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 1.2 mi away
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