Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church
Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 820 Madison Avenue in Albany, NY 12208. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.
820 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY, 12208Phone: (518) 489-2537 · Website: http://www.stmarystgeorge.org/
Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 232 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across New York — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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The community around Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox 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: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9%
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church
- Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Vincent De Paul Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chinese Christian Church of Greater Albany — 0.2 mi away
- Albany Friends Meeting House — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church — 1.8 mi away
- Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God — 5.6 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church — 6 mi away in Troy, NY
- Saint Basil's Russian Orthodox Church — 7 mi away in Watervliet, NY