St. Michael Orthodox Church
St. Michael Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 915 Blair Street in Portage, PA 15946. It is one of 15 churches in Portage.
Wheelchair accessible
915 Blair Street, Portage, PA, 15946St. Michael 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 St. Michael Orthodox Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (12.6–48.5%)
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (10.6–24.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portage borough is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near St. Michael Orthodox Church
- Portage Alliance Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Cross National Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Portage Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Hammers Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Ruthenian Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Wesleyan Holiness Church — 1.3 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 11.5 mi away in Johnstown, PA
- Holy Ascension Orthodox Church — 12.3 mi away in Colver, PA
- St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church — 13.4 mi away in Johnstown, PA
- SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church — 14.1 mi away in Vintondale, PA
- Christ the Saviour — 14.5 mi away in Johnstown, PA
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