Churches in New York

Active churches in New York

109 E. 31st Street, New York
hopechurchnyc.org
54 sermons · 6 days ago
100 Herrmann Place, New York
nydongsan.com
24 sermons
7 W 83rd St, New York
church.nyc
6 sermons
865 Madison Avenue, New York
stjames.org
3 sermons
237 West 51st Street New York, NY 10019
tsc.nyc
6 sermons
150 E 91st St, New York
redeemer.com
3 sermons
12 West 12th Street, New York
fpcnyc.org
3 sermons
55 Broadway, New York
v1.church
4 sermons
235 W 46th St, New York
hillsong.com
4 sermons
420 W 145th St, New York
conventchurch.org
2 sermons
1000 5th Avenue, New York
apostolicgospelmission.org
1 sermon
8 East 79th Street, New York
goarch.org
2 sermons
240 W. 37th Street 2nd Floor, New York
exilic.com
2 sermons

Types of churches in New York

Modern New York Churches

Many congregations meet in renovated lofts, theaters, or school auditoriums and emphasize contemporary worship, practical teaching, and strong small-group networks. They often draw young professionals and students from Williamsburg, Long Island City, the East Village, and the Financial District, with multiple service times and robust online streaming.

Historic & Liturgical

New York’s landmark sanctuaries—Gothic Revival naves, stained glass, and pipe organs—offer choral music, structured liturgy, and the full church calendar. These congregations are common in Midtown, the Upper East Side, and Brooklyn Heights, attracting worshipers who value tradition, architecture, and reverent services.

Harlem and Brooklyn Gospel Churches

Rooted in the city’s Black church heritage, these congregations feature spirited preaching, call-and-response, and choir-led worship that resonates through Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights. Many serve as community anchors with weekday food pantries, youth programs, and justice-focused outreach across Central Harlem, Flatbush, and the South Bronx.

New York Multilingual Churches

Reflecting the city’s immigrant hubs, these churches offer services in Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Haitian Creole, and more—often with rotating schedules or live translation. You’ll find them clustered in Jackson Heights, Flushing, Sunset Park, Washington Heights, and Richmond Hill, blending cultural traditions with support for new arrivals.

Sermon clips from New York churches

55s
#ExperienceGodsLove
“God's love, the worship of God, the joy of God is not an intellectual fact. It is meant to be as real, as tangible, as love, as attraction, as the joy of human relationship and connection. See, God's love is meant to be known, yes, as an intellectual fact, understanding our purpose from a rational perspective. But it's also meant to be experienced. Experienced in the way that we experience those first date jitters or the way we feel maybe when, like, we meet a long lost friend. It's this type of love and affection that happens in the body. God's love is known and experienced.”
89s
#믿음의칭찬
“여러분 지금도 하나님은 우리의 믿음을 칭찬하고 계신다 이 말입니다. 그만큼 믿음은 내 인생의 근간이에요. 내가 살아야 되는 가장 중요한 내 인생의 본질은 바로 뭔가? 믿음이에요. 믿음. 그 믿음이 혹시 내가 지금 잘못 믿고 있나 이렇게 하나님만 믿고 살아도 되나 이렇게 세상을 살아도 되나 다른 사람들은 하루가 멀다 안고 열심히 하면서 막 돈을 벌기 위해서 수단과 방법을 가리지 않고 경쟁하며 시기하며 질투하며 살아가지만 나는 그렇지 않고 하나님 주신 것에 만족하면서 비록 가난하지만 그 믿음의 자존감을 가지고 살아왔는데 그것이 과연 맞는가 여기에서 말해주는 거예요. 하나님이 칭찬해주는 거예요. 그래 너 세상에서는 나그네처럼 살았노라. 많은 사람들에게 때로는 무시를 당하고 때로는 굽실거려야 되고 때로는 정말 타협할 수 없는 그런 환경 가운데서 또 때로는 가진 것이 없어서 얼마나 많은 육신적인 어려움을 겪고 그런 상황 가운데서도 너는 뭐예요? 믿음을 가지고 살아왔다는 그것에 대해서 하나님이 칭찬한다 이 말입니다. 최종적인 칭찬이에요. 명예를 회복해 주는 것과 똑같은 겁니다.”
40s
“Rejection and recognition will make you do these four things. There's probably a lot more than this, but this is just the list I got praying for you guys and and praying for this time. The first thing is it makes you perform. You hustle trying to prove you're worth keeping. Next, you please. You lose your voice trying to keep everyone happy. Then you pretend. You become whoever the room needs you to be. And then last, but certainly not least, is you begin to perish. Slowly, quietly, you lose yourself entirely because you're just living for that voice of recognition coming from man, not from the father's voice.”
33s
“Isn't that cool? There's like two voices and they're not assumed by each other but they just contribute to something, the the piece that makes it the whole. Do you hear what I mean? God is relational. God is loving and giving because God so loved he gave his son. The son gave his life for the world and God gave us the spirit so we might know and experience this same love. Always giving, always offering, always seeking relationship.”
53s
“The church, a new family born out of a shared hope in the gospel, bought by Jesus' blood, where God becomes your father and diverse peoples from different backgrounds and different cultures call each other brother and sister and share a common name, Christian, and a common life and a common mission. You see, no one who trusts in Jesus lives this life without a spiritual family. And I I hope that's a great encouragement to you if you come from a difficult family situation, if you're experiencing loneliness here in the city, or if you're estranged or just physically far away from earthly parents or brothers and sisters, in the gospel and in the church, you are not alone.”
81s
“Baptism affirms that long before we can know God, long before we can claim Jesus Christ as Lord and savior, god in Christ claims and names us. And nowhere is that truth more clearly seen than in the baptism of young children whom we call children of the covenant. By water and spirit, we are made members of church, members of the body of Christ, joined in Christ's ministry of love, peace, and justice. So today, let us remember our own baptism as we celebrate the sacrament.”
45s
“I'm helping you because in our lives, we do the right things too few times. I got my wife flowers once. Well, how long you've been married? Twenty years. I massaged her back once. Well, how long you've been married? Thirty years. I took her on a date once. Well, how long you've been married? See, we do the right thing too few times. We are changed often by the things that not the things we do once, but the things we do many times. This is why the Lord told Naaman, you need to dip in the water seven times.”
36s
“When I see the news and I see death and hurt and anger and it's everywhere, but I see it in my own life as well. Bible doesn't leave us at the point of separation from him, dysfunction that gives away. The way he came in the form of the son of God. Jesus paid the price on the cross for your sin, your death, your dysfunction, your brokenness to give us hope, forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life. That message is as true today as what it was sixty seven years ago, as what it was two thousand years ago. There is hope, and there is saving grace for every single person.”
38s
“It's gonna show that you haven't been in the presence of God. Oil can't be borrowed. Nobody can pray enough for you to sustain your own fire. It takes a believer to dig a deep well inside and say, God, it is me and you. I want a personal relationship with you. I wanna experience your faithfulness. I wanna know that you're the God that covers me, that heals me, that restores me. All of that personal revelation can't be bought, can't be copied, but it has to be coming from a personal place of devotion.”
56s
“The difference between conviction and condemnation is that conviction says, you did a bad thing, but come home. Condemnation says, you're a bad person. Go away. So I wanna stop there and and give praise to god for all he's doing for us, all he's promised to do. Yeah. And keep in mind that under kingdom laws and kingdom rulership, god has to keep his name honorable, has to keep his namesake honorable. So he's not gonna see us go poor and without what we need to survive. Amen. It's in the name of Jesus that I offer these words. Amen.”

Why New York churches are unique

As the crossroads of global migration, churches in New York mirror the city’s multilingual, multiethnic fabric, welcoming newcomers from dozens of countries each week. Congregations often offer translation and culturally resonant fellowship that span boroughs and generations, embodying multilingual worship services, intercultural and multiethnic congregations, and immigrant community support.
City density and neighborhood rhythms shape how congregations gather, from storefront sanctuaries to rented theaters and school auditoriums near major transit hubs. To fit busy schedules, many offer flexible rhythms and technology-forward connections—and worship that ranges from liturgical to contemporary—cultivating weeknight services and gatherings, small group culture, and hybrid in-person and online worship.
In a city of sharp contrasts and creative energy, New York churches often pair practical compassion with artistic expression. Partnerships with community organizations and the arts scene lead to robust community service and justice, homeless outreach and recovery programs, and arts-integrated worship and prayer that reflect the city’s public life and imagination.

Recent sermons from New York churches

Nearby cities: 6 churches in Downtown 5 churches in Bedford-Stuyvesant 51 churches in Brooklyn 9 churches in Manhattan 5 churches in Crown Heights