Essex Street Baptist Church
Essex Street Baptist Church is a church at 82 Essex St in Bangor, ME 04401-5302. It is one of 50 churches in Bangor.
82 Essex St, Bangor, ME, 04401-5302Phone: +12079424177 · Website: http://fbcbangor.org
Essex Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 335 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maine — 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 Essex Street 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 a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Depression: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (17.9–35.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Essex Street Baptist Church
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- All Souls Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Bangor — 0.3 mi away
- Imago Dei Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Mansion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pathway Church — 0.3 mi away
- River City Wesleyan Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Bangor — 0.3 mi away
- Columbia Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Brewer, ME
- Fellowship Gym — 0.7 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away