Saint Raphael Orthodox Church
Saint Raphael Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 722 East College Street in Iowa City, IA 52240. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City.
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722 East College Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240Website: https://www.raphaelchurch.org/
Saint Raphael Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 21 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Iowa — 2,336 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.
Find Saint Raphael Orthodox Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Saint Raphael Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.
- Poverty Rate: 56.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0% (19.9–35.5%)
- Depression: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6% (12.2–20.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
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 Saint Raphael Orthodox Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- JustChurch — 0.3 mi away
- St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.4 mi away
- Geneva Campus Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Wenceslaus Church — 0.5 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- New Life Community Church — 3.4 mi away in Coralville, IA
- Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church — 23.4 mi away in Cedar Rapids, IA
- Saint George Orthodox Church — 23.7 mi away in Cedar Rapids, IA