Saint Frances Chapel
Saint Frances Chapel is a Roman Catholic church at 501 East Chase Street in Baltimore, MD 21202. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 35 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
501 East Chase Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202Saint Frances Chapel is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 351 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Maryland — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Frances Chapel
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,500 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.
- Social Isolation: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 43.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1% (19.4–40.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.4–20.4%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near Saint Frances Chapel
- Mount Zion Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Highway Christian Church of the Apostolic Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Hallelujah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Prospect Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sharon Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Refuge Deliverance Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Evangelical Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baltimore Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Ignatius Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James the Less Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace and St. Peter's Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Roman Catholic Cathedral — 0.6 mi away
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 0.7 mi away
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