Bethany Lutheran Church
Bethany Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 585 East 163rd Street in New York, NY 10456. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 90 Lutheran congregations in the city.
585 East 163rd Street, New York, NY, 10456Service times
- Tuesday 11am
- Thursday 11am
Shares a ministry location with Replib Abundant Grace.
Bethany 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 Bethany Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: Bethany Worship, August 2, 2026, Pentecost 10 - Humor in Scripture (all videos).
The community around Bethany 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 5,600 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: 49.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (21.4–48.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (9.3–23.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Child Poverty: 23.3% (10.9–35.8%)
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.
Churches near Bethany Lutheran Church
- Replib Abundant Grace — 0 mi away
- New Move of God Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Haitian Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Gospel Church — 0.1 mi away
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hephzibah Beulah Evangelical Ministry — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- The Apostolic Church Int. Grace Assembly — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Ministerio De La Resurreccion — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Faith Life Ministries International - Christian Faith Center — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Spanish Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran — 1.2 mi away
- Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Harlem — 2 mi away