St Matthew's Lutheran Church
St Matthew's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 178 Bennett Ave in New York, NY 10040-3830. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 103 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Serving since 2006
178 Bennett Ave, New York, NY, 10040-3830Service times
- Sunday 1:30pm
Phone: (212) 567-5948 · Website: http://www.stmatthewnyc.org/
St Matthew's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 537 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New York — 15,905 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.
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The community around St Matthew's Lutheran 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 9,100 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.
- Unemployment: 12.2% (5.7–18.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Food Insecurity: 17.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew's Lutheran Church
- Our Saviours Atonement Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Church of the Heights — 0.2 mi away
- St. Frances Cabrini Shrine — 0.2 mi away
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Elizabeth — 0.2 mi away
- St Anargyri Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saints Anargyroi Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Uptown Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fort George Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wadsworth Ave Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Fordham Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Harlem — 2.2 mi away
- Kingsbridge Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
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- Messiah Swedish Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away