New Jerusalem Baptist Church
New Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1018 Southeast 8th Avenue in Topeka, KS 66607. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
1018 Southeast 8th Avenue, Topeka, KS, 66607New Jerusalem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 677 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 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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The community around New Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.0%
- Child Poverty: 42.6% (24.7–60.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (20.2–46.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.4% (17.3–33.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 23.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near New Jerusalem Baptist Church
- East Topeka United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Branch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Auburn Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory City Church — 0.4 mi away
- IYFIC Temple of Deliverance — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Branch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away