Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church
Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 872 Fairmount Place in New York, NY 10460. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 90 Lutheran congregations in the city.
872 Fairmount Place, New York, NY, 10460Shares a ministry location with Parkchester Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Messiah Swedish 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.
Find Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Messiah Swedish 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 5,000 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: 49.1%
- Child Poverty: 47.0% (32.0–62.0%)
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (27.7–50.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Unemployment: 18.1% (10.2–26.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Obesity: 37.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church
- Parkchester Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Resurrection Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Thomas Aquinas — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation and Deliverance Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Iglesia Christiana Bethsemani — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Ebenezer de la Comunidad — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Family Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bronx Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Fordham Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Spanish Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away