Greater Community Baptist Church
Greater Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 16900 Puritan Street in Detroit, MI 48227. It is one of 1,585 churches in Detroit, and one of 234 Baptist congregations in the city.
16900 Puritan Street, Detroit, MI, 48227Greater Community Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Greater Community Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 48.1%
- Food Insecurity: 42.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3% (21.6–44.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (4.8–20.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Child Poverty: 36.7% (16.7–56.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Greater Community Baptist Church
- Lighthouse Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- St. Timothy Church United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Spirit of Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Full Gospel Opendoor Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Praise Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Church of Christ Holiness — 0.5 mi away
- Restoration Fellowship Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- New Jerusalem Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New St. Paul Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lighthouse Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- True Spirit of Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Jerusalem Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Principles of Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away