St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church is a church in Murphy, NC 28906. It is one of 84 churches in Murphy.

St. Nicholas was founded in 2009 with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, of blessed memory.

Murphy, NC, 28906

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 41 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across North Carolina — 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.

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The community around St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (9.8–24.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 30.3%
  • Depression: 25.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.0% (9.9–22.1%)
  • Diabetes: 13.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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