First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 181 Western Avenue in Albany, NY 12203. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are people encountering the grace of the Living God through worship, service, teaching, and fellowship.
Part of Upstate New York Synod
181 Western Avenue, Albany, NY, 12203Service times
Sunday after Pentecost is… Read more: July 19 – Worship is at 10:45 AM (as listed)
Phone: +1-518-463-1326 · Website: http://firstlutheranalbany.org/
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 525 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New York — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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Latest from First Lutheran Church, Albany's YouTube channel: Worship at First Lutheran in Albany, New York on June 14, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Poverty Rate: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Unemployment: 16.4% (7.5–25.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Albany Friends Meeting House — 0.3 mi away
- Shrine Church of Our Lady of the Americas — 0.3 mi away
- All Nations Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Assisi In Albany — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Mathew Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away in Rensselaer, NY