Laramie Street Baptist Church
Laramie Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Peoria, IL, 61605Laramie Street 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 Laramie Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Unemployment: 20.2% (8.1–32.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Laramie Street Baptist Church
- South Side Church of the Nazarene — 0 mi away
- Grace Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- Maranatha Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.4 mi away
- Pentacostals of Peoria — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrims Progress Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away