Zion Lutheran Church
Zion Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 140 North Gay Street in Baltimore, MD 21202. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 52 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Founded in 1755, Zion Church of the City of Baltimore is the mother church of Lutheranism for the Baltimore metro region.
140 North Gay Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · German Service
- Sunday 11am · English Service
Shares a ministry location with Zion Church of the City of Baltimore.
Zion Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 292 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Maryland — 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.
Ministries at Zion Lutheran Church
- German Language School
- Social Ministry
- Christian Education
- German Traditions
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The community around Zion Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 92.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.7% (16.8–32.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.8–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near Zion Lutheran Church
- Zion Church of the City of Baltimore — 0 mi away
- House Of Bread Baltimore — 0.1 mi away in Gwynn Oak, MD
- God's Church of Grace & Mercy — 0.1 mi away
- St. Vincent de Paul Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Shakers International Deliverance Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gallery Church Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden — 0.4 mi away
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. Philip's Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ English Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal el Jordan — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Augustine English Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Martini Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
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