Greater First Pilgrim Baptist Church
Greater First Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70116. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70116Greater First Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Greater First Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 55.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.5–17.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Greater First Pilgrim Baptist Church
- House of the Divine Prince — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Philip Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- St Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Hall Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Miracle Faith Church of God in Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Claver Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John The Baptist Parish — 0.3 mi away in Reserve, LA
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Hall Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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