First Abyssinia Baptist Church
First Abyssinia Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2500 Arunah Avenue in Baltimore, MD 21216. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 218 Baptist congregations in the city.
2500 Arunah Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21216First Abyssinia Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 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 First Abyssinia 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.7%
- Social Isolation: 44.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 18.9% (6.8–31.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (16.5–40.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near First Abyssinia Baptist Church
- Union Memorial United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Perkins Square Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Doswell Cathedral Church Of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- The First Emmanuel Church Apostolic — 0.2 mi away
- Triumph Church of Baltimore — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marks Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Holy Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lion of the Tribe of Judah Community Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Perkins Square Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- All New Satellite Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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