Saint Margarets Episcopal Church
Saint Margarets Episcopal Church is a church at 940 East 156th Street in New York, NY 10455. It is one of 2,692 churches in New York.
940 East 156th Street, New York, NY, 10455Saint Margarets Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 530 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across New York — 6,378 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 Saint Margarets Episcopal 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 6,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (7.9–22.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (19.6–39.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.2% (7.4–47.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Saint Margarets Episcopal Church
- United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Menonita — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Spanish Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bronx Spanish Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Red Letter Church — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Holy Ghost Hour Church — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Saint Anselm's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Casa De Oracion New York — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- El Buen Camino Iglesia Cristiana — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Trinity Episcopal Church of Morrisania — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Davis's — 0.9 mi away
- St. David's Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Ann's Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away