First Immanuel Lutheran Church
First Immanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1126-1132 South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 125 Lutheran congregations in the city.
First Immanuel is a diverse gathering of Christians, centered and immersed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We call all to discipleship in the love of Christ, through baptism, teaching, worship, and service.
1126-1132 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60612Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
First Immanuel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around First Immanuel Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.9–38.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (2.5–15.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.8–15.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near First Immanuel Lutheran Church
- Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Near West Vineyard Church — 0.2 mi away
- No Limit Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Greater St Stephenson M.B.C — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Basil Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Garden Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Outreach City Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Matthew Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church of the Trinity — 2.4 mi away
- Holy Family Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away