Saint John-Saint Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church

Saint John-Saint Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 283 Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11215. It is one of 537 churches in Brooklyn, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.

283 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11215

Saint John-Saint Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 537 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New York — 15,905 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-Saint Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 4,000 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 32.9%
  • Unemployment: 8.4% (1.7–15.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.

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