St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church
St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 125 Academy Street in Belleville, NJ 07109. It is one of 18 churches in Belleville.
125 Academy Street, Belleville, NJ, 07109St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 94 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across New Jersey — 2,098 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. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 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.
- Unemployment: 12.6% (4.4–20.8%)
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (11.4–23.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- River of Life Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia La Senda Antigua — 0.3 mi away
- Little Zion Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- World Mission Society Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- All Saints Anglican Parish — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Rock Community Church — 0.7 mi away in Newark, NJ
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Our Lady of Kazan Russian Orthodox — 1.2 mi away in Newark, NJ
- SS. Peter & Paul Russian Orthodox Cathedral — 3.3 mi away in Passaic, NJ
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