Asylum Avenue Baptist Church
Asylum Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 868 Asylum Avenue in Hartford, CT 06105. It is one of 177 churches in Hartford, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
At Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, we are committed to serving our community and sharing the love of Christ.
Serving since 1872
868 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT, 06105Asylum Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 283 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Connecticut — 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 Asylum Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (4.7–24.2%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (10.5–28.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Child Poverty: 25.7% (17.8–37.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (11.8–31.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Hartford city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 1,552 residents.
Churches near Asylum Avenue Baptist Church
- Asylum Hill Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.2 mi away
- Citadel of Love — 0.2 mi away
- International Tabernacle Of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Glory Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Hartford Portuguese Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hartford Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hartford Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Connecticut Myanmar Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Riverfront Family Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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