Officials said some of the students had just moved in days ago and decorated their rooms and now have to start all over.
The fire broke out just before 4 a.m. inside a building on West 30th Street.
The fire started in a first-floor apartment of a building on 165th Street just before 4 a.m.
The pastor insists the church will be rebuilt, and the congregation is asking the community to help.
The three-alarm fire broke out just before 1:30 p.m. Friday at the church on Bushwick Avenue. Flames quickly engulfed the structure, causing its iconic steeple to collapse and spreading to nearby buildings.
Fire officials say it started on the on the first floor of the five-story building. Both victims were taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi.