University Lutheran Church
University Lutheran Church is a church at 3637 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, PA 19104. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia.
3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104Shares a ministry location with Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia.
University Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,004 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 15,755 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 University Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,500 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.0%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.6–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near University Lutheran Church
- Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia — 0 mi away
- Tabernacle United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Newman Catholic Center — 0.1 mi away
- First Episcopal District — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Covenant Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Temple Church — 1.7 mi away
- St. Philip's Lutheran Parish Hall — 1.9 mi away
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