Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 160 Central Avenue in Albany, NY 12206. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
160 Central Avenue, Albany, NY, 12206Shares a ministry location with Assisi In Albany.
Saint John's Evangelical 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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The community around Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (24.3–48.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Unemployment: 20.6% (9.3–31.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Assisi In Albany — 0 mi away
- Blessed Hope Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- The Redeemed Christian Church of Gad — 0.1 mi away
- RCCG Restoration Assembly - Albany, NY — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Church of Albany — 0.2 mi away
- All Nations Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Francis Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Russian Church of Albany — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Mathew Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away in Rensselaer, NY