Greater Rising Sun Baptist Church
Greater Rising Sun Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9013-9015 South Buffalo Avenue in Chicago, IL 60617. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
9013-9015 South Buffalo Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60617Greater Rising Sun 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 — 71,420 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 Greater Rising Sun 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. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 55.6%
- Child Poverty: 54.7% (38.2–72.7%)
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Poverty Rate: 44.0% (31.6–56.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 22.0% (9.4–34.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.4–17.6%)
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 Greater Rising Sun Baptist Church
- Trinity Resurrection United Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- National Shrine of St. Jude — 0.2 mi away
- South Haitian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Beyth-el Temple & College — 0.3 mi away
- La Luz Del Mundo — 0.3 mi away
- New Holy Trinity Temple — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- National Shrine of St. Jude — 0.2 mi away
- Gabaon Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Morning Star Bible Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away