Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church is a Greek Orthodox church at 501 A Avenue Northeast in Cedar Rapids, IA 52401. It is one of 166 churches in Cedar Rapids.
The most common services you will find at St. John are: the Divine Liturgy, vespers, orthros (or matins), paraklesis.
501 A Avenue Northeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday 3pm
Phone: +1-319-364-5460 · Website: https://www.stjohncr.org/
Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 16 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Iowa — 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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The community around Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.2% (23.8–62.6%)
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (17.3–43.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.3–14.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Cedar Rapids city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 984 residents.
Churches near Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fathers House Vineyard Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Life Church - Cedar Rapids — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Ame Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hispanic Minsitry — 0.4 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Veritas Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Saint George Orthodox Church — 2.8 mi away