Greater Shiloh Baptist Church
Greater Shiloh Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 557 Benton Street in Detroit, MI 48201. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.
557 Benton Street, Detroit, MI, 48201Greater Shiloh Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,819 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Greater Shiloh Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 79.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (28.0–50.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (5.5–28.6%)
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Greater Shiloh Baptist Church
- Peter Claver Church — 0.1 mi away
- Starlight Temple of Truth — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church Roseville mi — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Alan MD — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kossick Donald — 0.4 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Alan MD — 0.3 mi away
- Ark Grove Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Warren Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away