St. Benedict the Moor

St. Benedict the Moor is a Catholic church at 320 21st Street Northeast in Washington, DC 20002. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 41 Catholic congregations in the city.

320 21st Street Northeast, Washington, DC, 20002

Website: https://stbenmoordc.org/

St. Benedict the Moor is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 54 congregations of the Catholic family gather across District of Columbia — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around St. Benedict the Moor

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,500 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.

  • Unemployment: 18.0% (9.9–26.0%)
  • Social Isolation: 37.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.6% (11.3–27.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.

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