Western Avenue Baptist Church
Western Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 299 Western Avenue in Cambridge, MA 02139. It is one of 93 churches in Cambridge, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Today, The Avenue stands as a living testament to God’s faithfulness and the power of divine timing.
Serving since 1890
299 Western Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm
Phone: (617) 661-0433 · Website: https://www.westernavenuechurch.com/
Western Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,417 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 Western Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 38.0%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (11.3–24.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Cambridge city is served by 58 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.
Churches near Western Avenue Baptist Church
- Abundant Life Church — 0.1 mi away
- JHOP Boston — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Temple — 0.3 mi away
- First Korean Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Botolph Orthodox Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Cambridge — 0.4 mi away
- Saints Constantine and Helen Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Square Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church Cambridge — 0.4 mi away
- Cambridgeport Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Boston Reformed Baptist Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Old Cambridge Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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