St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch
St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch is a Coptic Orthodox church at 411-425 Sip Avenue in Jersey City, NJ 07306. It is one of 204 churches in Jersey City, and one of 2 Coptic Orthodox congregations in the city.
411-425 Sip Avenue, Jersey City, NJ, 07306St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch 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 St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch
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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Child Poverty: 37.9% (21.3–54.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (15.2–34.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.9–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Jersey City city is served by 102 churches — about one congregation for every 2,822 residents.
Churches near St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Chruch
- Jesus Family Telugu Church-USA — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Now Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Maranatha Karibu Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Korean Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Crossroad Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Aloysius Church — 0.6 mi away
- Chapel of Saint Peter — 0.6 mi away
More Oriental Orthodox churches nearby
- St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark — 1.3 mi away
- St. Abanoub & St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church — 3.1 mi away in Bayonne, NJ
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