Fordham Lutheran Church
Fordham Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2427 Walton Avenue in New York, NY 10468. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 103 Lutheran congregations in the city.
2427 Walton Avenue, New York, NY, 10468Fordham 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 Fordham 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 9,100 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: 47.9%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (21.6–42.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (7.8–21.2%)
- Child Poverty: 32.8% (14.8–50.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.2–18.2%)
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 Fordham Lutheran Church
- Creston Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Estrella De Jacob — 0.1 mi away
- Fordham Community Church — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- World Changers Church — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Eleventh Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Love Gospel Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Casa de Restauracion Guardadores de Verdades — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Church Christ the King — 0.2 mi away
- Solomon Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Kingsbridge Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Epiphany — 1.5 mi away
- Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- St Matthew's Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away