Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2 Union Street in Norwich, CT 06360. It is one of 46 churches in Norwich, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
2 Union Street, Norwich, CT, 06360Phone: (860) 889-8313 · Website: http://www.centralbaptistnorwich.com
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 286 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Connecticut — 71,418 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 Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (14.7–54.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.0–30.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Norwich city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 1,082 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- United Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Family Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Castle Church — 0.1 mi away
- Norwich Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Norwich — 0.1 mi away
- National Spiritualist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evans Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Patrick — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Preston, CT
- Leffingwell Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Bozrah, CT
- Fitchville Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Bozrah, CT
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