Saint Basil's Greek Orthodox Church
Saint Basil's Greek Orthodox Church is a church at 909 River Street in Troy, NY 12180. It is one of 83 churches in Troy.
909 River Street, Troy, NY, 12180Saint Basil's Greek Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 215 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across New York — 2,098 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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The community around Saint Basil's Greek Orthodox 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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: 29.6%
- Unemployment: 14.6% (6.1–23.0%)
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 33.3% (22.3–45.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (14.3–33.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Troy city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 1,090 residents.
Churches near Saint Basil's Greek Orthodox Church
- Sixth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Ordained Church — 0.1 mi away
- Amazing Grace Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Alliance — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Serenity Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Saviors Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fifth Avenue AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ and Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Saint Basil's Russian Orthodox Church — 1.3 mi away in Watervliet, NY
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 1.6 mi away in Cohoes, NY
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church — 2.6 mi away
- Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God — 7.4 mi away in Albany, NY
- Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church — 9 mi away in Albany, NY