Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5200 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60644. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
5200 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60644Shares a ministry location with Salem Baptist District Association.
Friendship 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 — 71,417 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 Friendship Baptist 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. More than a third 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: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 20.3% (8.1–32.4%)
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (9.2–35.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (8.2–19.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Salem Baptist District Association — 0 mi away
- Gospel Enjoyment Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Temple of Provision Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Truth & Deliverance International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Christian Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Jude Spiritual Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Jude Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Emmaus Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Greater Way MB Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Saint Matthews Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Refreshing Spring Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Isaiah Mission Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away