St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral is a Orthodox church at 200 Alexander Ave in Howell, NJ 07731-8684. It is one of 16 churches in Howell, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.
St. Alexander Nevsky church was established in 1936 with the blessing of the then-ruling Archbishop Vitaly (Maksimenko), and has since remained under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which is headquartered in New York.
Serving since 1936
200 Alexander Ave, Howell, NJ, 07731-8684Service times
- Saturday 5pm
Phone: +17323643330 · Website: https://stalexandernevskycathedral.com/
St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral 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. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Child Poverty: 32.7% (19.1–46.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.8–36.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.5–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral
- Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Howell — 0 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.3 mi away
- Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church — 1.3 mi away
- Sixth Street Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
- Bethel Church — 1.3 mi away
- Christian Missionary Church — 1.4 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
- Hope Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
- Missionary Pentecostal Church — 1.5 mi away in Lakewood, NJ
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