Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark
Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark is a Orthodox church at 427 West Side Ave in Jersey City, NJ 07304. It is one of 204 churches in Jersey City.
The church’s primary goal is to faithfully shepherd its congregation and nourish them spiritually guided by the bible and its ancient Orthodox traditions.
Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church was founded by the first Egyptian immigrants to New Jersey and New York in the 1960s.
427 West Side Ave, Jersey City, NJ, 07304Phone: (201) 333-0004 · Website: https://saintmark.com/
Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark is part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 26 congregations of the Oriental Orthodox family gather across New Jersey — 351 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syriac churches have held the faith under pressure longer than almost anyone — Ethiopia has worshiped Christ continuously since the fourth century, and the Armenian church has buried martyrs in nearly every generation since. Their endurance is a gift to a church that has grown used to comfort.
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The community around Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark
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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.2% (36.8–71.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (18.0–39.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jersey City city is served by 102 churches — about one congregation for every 2,822 residents.
Churches near Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark
- Harvest City Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Victories Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jersey City Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cotton Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- ICJWM — 0.5 mi away
- World Outreach Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Truth Church NJ — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Oriental Orthodox churches nearby
- St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch — 1.3 mi away
- St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church — 1.3 mi away
- St. Abanoub & St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church — 1.8 mi away in Bayonne, NJ
- Virgin Mary and St. John’s Coptic Orthodox Church — 4.1 mi away in Bayonne, NJ
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