Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church
Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1956-1958 West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 13 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
1956-1958 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60612Gospel Temple Missionary 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 — 71,419 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 Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 2,200 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: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (16.8–38.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.3–19.3%)
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
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 Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church
- Greater Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Malachy + Precious Blood — 0.4 mi away
- Blessed Maria Gabriella — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Encounter — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Healing Temple — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away