Luther Memorial Church
Luther Memorial Church is a Lutheran church at 1021 University Avenue in Madison, WI 53715. It is one of 203 churches in Madison, and one of 20 Lutheran congregations in the city.
In reverence for the church’s great heritage of music and liturgy, we are nourished with the crucified and risen Lord’s body and blood, that we might serve others in daily life.
Luther Memorial is an intergenerational faith community of the ELCA, founded by Lutheran UW students in 1907.
Services in Spanish · Assistive listening devices
1021 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53715Service times
Sunday | 8:15 am & 10:30 am (as listed)
Phone: (608) 258-3160 · Website: http://luthermem.org
Shares a ministry location with Christian Science Student Organization and Lutheran Campus Ministry and St. Francis House Episcopal Student Center and The Church of X01 (Cyber-Church).
Luther Memorial Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,300 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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.
Ministries at Luther Memorial Church
- Food Pantry
- Youth & Family Ministry
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The community around Luther Memorial Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 82.0%
- Social Isolation: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 40.8%
- Depression: 33.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3% (10.3–17.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Madison city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 2,880 residents.
Churches near Luther Memorial Church
- The Church of X01 (Cyber-Church) — 0 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry — 0 mi away
- St. Francis House Episcopal Student Center — 0 mi away
- Christian Science Student Organization — 0 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Crossing — 0.1 mi away
- Geneva Church — 0.1 mi away
- Blackhawk Church Downtown — 0.2 mi away
- Pres House — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul University Catholic Center — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Calvary Lutheran Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Paul Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away