Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46406. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46406Shares a ministry location with Sonrise Baptist Church.
Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 71,872 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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Latest from Temple Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Evening Meeting of the Temple Baptist Church • August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Temple Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Food Insecurity: 45.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.8% (28.7–50.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (8.2–26.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Child Poverty: 33.1% (15.7–50.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.4–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Temple Baptist Church
- Sonrise Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Black Oak Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Ann Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Smyrna Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Black Oak Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Living Waters Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Prayer Outreach Deliverance Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Black Oak Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Old Fashion Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Sweet Pilgrim of Grace Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away