First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 299 Berkeley Street in Boston, MA 02116. It is one of 363 churches in Boston, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
A people living to bring the message and example of Jesus Christ to greater Boston
First Lutheran Church of Boston was formed as an independent Lutheran congregation in 1839, later becoming a congregation of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).
299 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA, 02116Service times
- Sunday 8am · Worship
- Sunday 11am · Worship
Phone: (617) 536-8851 · Website: https://flc-boston.org/
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 91 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,200 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: 33.7%
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Boston city is served by 162 churches — about one congregation for every 4,110 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Church of the Covenant — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ecclesia Ministries - common cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de la Trinidad — 0.1 mi away
- Story Heights Church-Back Bay — 0.2 mi away
- FBCBoston — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Boston — 0.2 mi away
- Arlington Street Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anchor Church Boston — 0.2 mi away
- Community Church of Boston — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Harbor Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away in Cambridge, MA
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away in Cambridge, MA
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Our Saviour's Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Latvian Lutheran Exile Church — 2.8 mi away in Brookline, MA
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