Saint Mary's Orthodox Church
Saint Mary's Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 721 East 5th Street in Erie, PA 16507. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 3 Orthodox congregations in the city.
721 East 5th Street, Erie, PA, 16507Saint Mary's Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 217 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Pennsylvania — 2,336 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 Mary's Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 59.3% (40.5–78.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (24.6–46.1%)
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Saint Mary's Orthodox Church
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Full Gospel Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wayne Park Baptist Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Hedwig Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of God Galatians — 0.4 mi away
- Tenth Street United Methodist — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Ann Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Life Ministries Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Renacer — 0.5 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- Russian Old Rite Orthodox Church of the Nativity — 0.7 mi away
- Koimisis Tis Theotokou Church — 6.8 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Church — 21.6 mi away in Edinboro, PA