Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church
Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1803 North Johnson Street in New Orleans, LA 70116. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
1803 North Johnson Street, New Orleans, LA, 70116Phone: (504) 947-8694 · Website: https://www.greateremmanuelmbc.org/our-family
Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,418 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 Emmanuel Baptist 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. Nearly half 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 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.
- Child Poverty: 50.0% (33.8–65.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3% (27.5–55.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (1.8–23.0%)
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (3.7–19.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church
- Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Second Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Praise Temple Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Divine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Divine Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Divine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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