St Thomas Orthodox Church
St Thomas Orthodox Church is a Catholic church at 1009 Unruh Ave in Philadelphia, PA 19111-4819. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 59 Catholic congregations in the city.
The St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church, Philadelphia (formerly known as St. Thomas Malankara Orthodox Church, Inc.) is a parish of the Northeast American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Serving since 1997
1009 Unruh Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19111-4819Phone: (215) 342-1500 · Website: https://stthomasphiladelphia.org/
St Thomas Orthodox Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at St Thomas Orthodox Church
- Sunday School
- Men’s Forum
- Martha Mariam Samajam
- Couple’s Forum
- Campus Ministry
- Middle School Fellowship (CAYA)
- Discipleship Ministry
- Choir and Altar Assistants
- Marth Mariam Samajam
- Prayer Line
- GROW Ministry
- Middle School Fellowship
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The community around St Thomas Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.1% (6.3–37.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (9.0–28.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.7–16.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Thomas Orthodox Church
- Grace Community Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of Philadelphia — 0.5 mi away
- Oxford Circle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lawndale Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Trinity Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Indian Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Generacion en Cristo — 0.6 mi away
- Living Waters United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Shalon Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
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- Resurrection of Our Lord Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Martin's Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Luke's-Bishop Hoffman Reformed Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- Epiphany Of Our Lord Church — 2.2 mi away
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