First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 501 James Street in Syracuse, NY 13203. It is one of 206 churches in Syracuse, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
501 James Street, Syracuse, NY, 13203First English 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 — 15,756 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 First English 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 85.9%
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3%
- Food Insecurity: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (1.7–12.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Syracuse city is served by 63 churches — about one congregation for every 2,319 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- Church of the Saviour — 0.1 mi away
- Apostolic Church International — 0.1 mi away
- Bread of Life Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Temple Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- River Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vineyard Church - Northside — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Park Central Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. Stephen Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.6 mi away in Liverpool, NY
- Luther Memorial Lutheran Church — 5.2 mi away
- St Michael's Lutheran Church — 6 mi away in Camillus, NY
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away in Fayetteville, NY