Old Cambridge Baptist Church
Old Cambridge Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1151 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA 02138. It is one of 93 churches in Cambridge, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
OCBC is a progressive, inclusive Christian community in the American Baptist tradition that seeks to offer God’s radical hospitality to everyone, answering God’s call to hold fast to love and justice for the earth and all its peoples, and welcoming all who are seekers.
Wheelchair accessible · Part of Samuel Stillman Association
1151 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · during main church service
Phone: (617) 864-9275 · Website: http://www.oldcambridgebaptist.org/
Old Cambridge Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,420 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.
Ministries at Old Cambridge Baptist Church
- Food and Refugee Support
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The community around Old Cambridge Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 3,000 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (11.3–22.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Cambridge city is served by 58 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.
Churches near Old Cambridge Baptist Church
- Harvard Catholic Center — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- All Nations Church-Boston — 0.1 mi away in Somerville, MA
- Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Highrock Cambridge Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- University Lutheran Church (ELCA) — 0.3 mi away
- The First Parish in Cambridge — 0.3 mi away
- Anglican Church Of The Epiphany Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Swedenborg Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Revolution — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Western Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Boston Reformed Baptist Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church Cambridge — 0.7 mi away
- Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cambridgeport Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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