Immanuel Lutheran Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 149-40 11th Avenue in New York, NY 11357. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 90 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Immanuel embraces Jesus’ words in Matthew 28, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
Welcome to Immanuel Lutheran Church. . . In years past, we have been called “the Church with a Lighted Cross,” because many years ago, pilots to and from LaGuardia, used our church to direct their planes to runway number 22. When the church steeple failed to light, a pilot from LaGuardia Field called to ask whether we intended lighting it again. We have been in the community since December 26, 1894! Since then, Immanuel has been a place of learning, healing, teaching and guiding our community-at-large by proclaiming the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ in an ever changing world.
Services in Chinese · Part of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
149-40 11th Avenue, New York, NY, 11357Service times
- Wednesday 10:30am
Phone: (718) 747-1124 · Website: http://www.immanuelwhitestone.com/
Immanuel 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.
Ministries at Immanuel Lutheran Church
- Language Specific Ministry
- Chinese Ministry
- Hindi Ministry
- Tamil Ministry
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Latest from Immanuel Whitestone's YouTube channel: Tenth Sunday After Pentecost | Hindi Service | 8/2/2026 (all videos).
The community around Immanuel 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 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: 36.5%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.0–15.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Food Insecurity: 15.9%
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 Immanuel Lutheran Church
- Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church — 0 mi away in Whitestone, NY
- Blessed Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mcgi Ny East Coast Locale — 0.1 mi away
- Moakyang Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away in Whitestone, NY
- New York Together Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Lukes Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Immanuel Korean Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Thanksgiving Church — 2 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Saint John — 2.1 mi away