Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1212 12th Avenue Northwest in Rochester, MN 55901. It is one of 120 churches in Rochester, and one of 20 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (ELCA) was found in 1953 and is located in Rochester, MN. We believe there are many thresholds to connecting with God including worship, music, contemplative practices, conversation, and relationships.
1212 12th Avenue Northwest, Rochester, MN, 55901Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (507) 289-1841 · Website: http://www.gloria-dei.com/
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,487 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 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 Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
- Med City Dinner Church
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Latest from Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (ELCA)'s YouTube channel: Sunday Worship | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Social Isolation: 29.2%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (11.7–22.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rochester city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 1,550 residents.
Churches near Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
- Church of St. Pius X — 0.1 mi away
- Assisi Heights Convent — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saints Kosmas & Damianos Orthodox Church — 0.8 mi away
- Holy Seed Assembly — 0.9 mi away
- Bethany Church — 0.9 mi away
- Redemption City Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Luke's Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Oak Tree Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Chapel — 1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- True Life Church — 1.1 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Zumbro Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
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