Holy Rood Episcopal Church
Holy Rood Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 715 West 179th Street in New York, NY 10033. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 66 Episcopal congregations in the city.
715 West 179th Street, New York, NY, 10033Shares a ministry location with Holyrood Church.
Holy Rood Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 527 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across New York — 6,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Holy Rood Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 8,500 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: 38.7%
- Food Insecurity: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.3–14.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Holy Rood Episcopal Church
- Holyrood Church — 0 mi away
- Fort Washington Collegiate Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Hispana — 0.1 mi away
- Fort Washington II Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hillsong Church NYC — 0.2 mi away
- Wadsworth Ave Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fort Washington Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Uptown Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Broadway Temple-Washington Heights United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Church of the Intercession — 1.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Edmunds Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Luke's Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 2 mi away