Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church
Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 217 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, CT 06511. It is one of 187 churches in New Haven, and one of 5 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
Founded in 1820, Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ is the oldest formally recognized African American Congregational Church in the world — and one of the most beloved and historic faith communities among Black churches in New Haven, CT. We are a multicultural and progressive congregation rooted in the Black church tradition, committed to liberation, justice, and radical welcome.
217 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (203) 787-5839 · Website: https://dixwellucc.org/
Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 219 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Connecticut — 2,928 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Dixwell Avenue Congregational 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 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.
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (26.0–43.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.5%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (17.6–51.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (5.5–14.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
New Haven city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,428 residents.
Churches near Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church
- New Testament Church — 0 mi away
- Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mission Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Deliverance Ministries Freewill Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Martin De Porres — 0.2 mi away
- Dwelling Place Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock Tabernacle Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- New Growth Praise Center C.O.G.I.C — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Shalom United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- United Church on the Green — 0.8 mi away
- Center Church on the Green — 0.8 mi away
- Whitneyville Congregational Church — 2.2 mi away in Hamden, CT
- Pilgrim Congregational UCC — 2.6 mi away
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