St. Mary Magdalen Church

Diocese: Diocese of New York and New Jersey
Deanery: New York City Deanery

Address

70 W 107th St
New York, NY 10025
USA

Email:

Website: saintmarymagdalen.nyc

Office: 646-846-1020

Parish Contacts

Directions

By Subway
Walking distance from four subway stops:  West 103rd Street & Broadway (1 Train), West 110th Street & Broadway (1 Train), West 103rd Street & Central Park West (B & C Trains), and West 110th Street & Central Park West (B & C Trains).

By bus
Take the M4 or M104 bus to to Broadway and W 107 St.

Schedule of Services

5:00 PM Vigil
First Saturday evening of each month

9:30 AM Matins; 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy.
Sunday Morning

Please call or check our website for more information.

Confessions are heard before and after services, and at other times by appointment.
Confessions

Parish Background

Founded as a mission on September 1, 1985, Saint Mary Magdalen Church has always reached out to the neighborhood in which God has located us. St. Mary Magdalen celebrates its services in English and is home to parishioners of many ethnic backgrounds.

Arising out of the English-language mission work of communities at the Holy Protection Cathedral (St. Innocent of Irkutsk) and Christ the Savior, figures like Fr. Georges Florovky, Fr. John Meyendorff, and Fr. Stephen Plumlee laid the foundation for the earliest years of St. Mary Magdalen as a community. In September of 1985, the community was granted its own independent mission status and moved to our current neighborhood on the Upper West Side. There, it variably used rented spaces at the Union Theological Seminary, St. Paul’s Chapel on Columbia University’s campus, and parishioners’ apartments. It thereby marked the first serious return of the Metropolia/OCA to Morningside Heights since St. Vladimir’s departure from Union in 1962.

In 1995, the mission was granted full parish status, and in 2006 arranged the purchase of the current storefront property on 107th and Columbus.

Despite lacking a dedicated building, our community has proven itself a viable and sustainable cell of the Body of Christ on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It has historically had strong ties with the Columbia University Orthodox Christian Fellowship, originally founded by Fr. Georges Florovsky in 1950 as the first pan-Orthodox student organization. Due to the large number of students who join our parish, learn to live as Orthodox Christians, and who then go on to work or study throughout the world, we trust that the Orthodox Church as a whole benefits from our ministry, as well as our local neighborhood.