Damascus Baptist Church
Damascus Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 10014 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL 60628. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
10014 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60628Damascus 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 Damascus 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (8.7–25.8%)
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.8–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Damascus Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (Rosemoor) — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bread Of Life Church Of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Brown Temple Mission Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Third Heaven Missionary — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John De La Salle Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Miracle Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Prayer of Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Interdenominational Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- True Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Soul-Reviving Missionary Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away