Zion Lutheran Church
Zion Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 139 South High Street in Akron, OH 44308. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Our story began in 1854, when a small group of German Lutheran families, led by Rev. Peter Jacob Buehl, gathered in Akron with a shared desire to worship, pray, and build a Christ-centered community.
Serving since 1854
139 South High Street, Akron, OH, 44308Service times
- Wednesday 10am
Phone: (330) 253-3136 · Website: http://ziononthehill.org/
Zion Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 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 Zion Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 41.0% (29.4–52.7%)
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.5%
- Child Poverty: 33.5% (13.9–53.3%)
- Depression: 30.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (4.8–16.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.1–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Zion Lutheran Church
- Burning Bush Christian Church — 0 mi away
- The Remedy Church — 0 mi away
- High Street Christian Church — 0 mi away
- St. Bernard Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Akron — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Divinity Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away
- Firestone Park Lutheran Church — 3.2 mi away