St Mary's Abbey Church
St Mary's Abbey Church is a Roman Catholic church in Newark, NJ 07102. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 6 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
Newark, NJ, 07102Website: https://www.smcnewark.org/
St Mary's Abbey Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 611 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St Mary's Abbey Church
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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (19.8–43.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.3–14.6%)
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near St Mary's Abbey Church
- St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Sanctuary USA — 0.1 mi away
- St James A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Universal Aurora — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Fellowship Church NewArk — 0.3 mi away
- Renew Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wells Cathedral Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- Newman Catholic Campus Ministry at University Heights — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Pro-Cathedral — 0.6 mi away
- St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Columba's Church — 0.7 mi away