Garfield Ridge Baptist Church
Garfield Ridge Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5520 South Narragansett Avenue in Chicago, IL 60638. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
5520 South Narragansett Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60638Website: http://independentbaptistchicago.com/
Garfield Ridge 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 Garfield Ridge Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 Garfield Ridge Baptist Church
- Garfield Ridge Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Daniel the Prophet Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Reformed Church — 0.6 mi away
- CrossRoads Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Jane de Chantal Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Risen Savior Assembly Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hope Church Midway — 0.7 mi away
- Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Symphorosa's Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Summit, IL
- Baptist Revival Center — 1.5 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Summit, IL
- Smyra Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Bridgeview, IL
- First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Bridgeview, IL