Saint George Orthodox Church

Saint George Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 519 58th Street in Altoona, PA 16602. It is one of 85 churches in Altoona, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.

St. George is a welcoming church that has maintained its growth by adhering to the Biblical faith and traditions of the first centuries of Christianity.

St. George Orthodox Church traces its roots to the very beginning of Christianity, in Antioch, where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians and where its first bishop was St. Peter.

519 58th Street, Altoona, PA, 16602

Service times

  • Sunday 10am

Website: https://www.stgeorgealtoona.com/

Shares a ministry location with Christ Community UMC.

Saint George Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story.

Ministries at Saint George Orthodox Church

  • Sunday School
  • Choir
  • Lending Library

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The community around Saint George Orthodox Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 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.

  • Depression: 24.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (1.0–12.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Altoona city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.

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