Hyde Park Union Church
Hyde Park Union Church is a Baptist church at 5600 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, IL 60637. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of HPUC is to celebrate God’s diversity among us through inclusive, open and affirming Christian fellowship and service; to welcome and honor each person through all stages of life; and to pursue God’s justice in the world – with the promise of joy, liberation, and love.
Hyde Park Union Church is a diverse, open and affirming congregation affiliated with two denominations: American Baptist Churches-USA and United Church of Christ, spreading the Good News from our corner of Chicago.
5600 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Phone: (773) 363-6063 · Website: https://hpuc.org/
Hyde Park Union 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 Hyde Park Union 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,600 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.1–14.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (13.0–29.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Hyde Park Union Church
- 57th Street Meeting of Friends — 0 mi away
- Brent House — 0.1 mi away
- First Unitarian Church of Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- University Church — 0.1 mi away
- Park Community Church - Hyde Park — 0.1 mi away
- Augustana Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvert House — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Chicago — 0.8 mi away
- Christian Temple Baptist Church — 1 mi away