St. Benedict the Moor's Church
St. Benedict the Moor's Church is a Catholic church at 340 West 53rd Street in New York, NY 10019. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 186 Catholic congregations in the city.
340 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10019St. Benedict the Moor's Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New York — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Benedict the Moor's Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the people here were born in another country. That is 7,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 St. Benedict the Moor's Church
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- St. Paul's House — 0.1 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spiritist Group of New York — 0.2 mi away
- Morningstar International — 0.2 mi away
- Every Nation Church NYC, PM Sunday Service & Office — 0.2 mi away
- United Spiritualists Church — 0.2 mi away
- FOUNT Church | Manhattan — 0.2 mi away
- Times Square Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — 0.2 mi away
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