Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 224 Washington Street in Reading, PA 19601. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
224 Washington Street, Reading, PA, 19601Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.9% (42.6–79.2%)
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (28.7–52.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Unemployment: 16.5% (7.7–25.2%)
- Depression: 23.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Holy Rosary Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope of the Nations Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Reading Quaker Meeting — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Universal — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Betania — 0.7 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Action Chapel Pennsylvania — 1.2 mi away in West Reading, PA
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