Alpha Temple Baptist Church
Alpha Temple Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 6701 S Emerald Ave in Chicago, IL 60621-2509. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 35 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
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6701 S Emerald Ave, Chicago, IL, 60621-2509Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (773) 723-5500 · Website: https://www.alphatemple.org/
Alpha Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Alpha Temple 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 half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 54.8%
- Obesity: 48.5%
- Child Poverty: 46.2% (27.1–65.3%)
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.8%
- Poverty Rate: 38.6% (24.3–52.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.9%
- Unemployment: 24.3% (10.8–37.8%)
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.3–21.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Alpha Temple Baptist Church
- Blooming Rose Deliverance Church — 0.1 mi away
- Solid Rock Missionary Bapist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Samaritan Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of Inspiration Church of God in Christ Reunion Page — 0.2 mi away
- Missionary Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Manuel Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- City of Faith Christian Church of Chicago — 0.3 mi away
- Banner of Faith Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Bible Center — 0.3 mi away
- Burning Bush Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away