Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Orthodox Church is a church at 703 North 6th Street in Allentown, PA 18102. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown.
703 North 6th Street, Allentown, PA, 18102Website: https://www.facebook.com/pbvmallentown/
Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 204 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 61.3% (44.0–78.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 48.3% (35.5–61.1%)
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.5%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (2.2–25.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (9.1–28.8%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Allentown city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 1,456 residents.
Churches near Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
- Iglesia Pentecostal Rios de Agua Viva — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Church of Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Allentown Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dubbs Memorial United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Universal — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal La Ultima Cosecha — 0.3 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- Prayer Warriors - MCCLV — 0.4 mi away
- Laikos International Church — 0.4 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox — 0.8 mi away
- St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 3.7 mi away in Bethlehem, PA
- St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church — 4.7 mi away in Emmaus, PA
- St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church — 5 mi away in Bethlehem, PA
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