Puritan Avenue Baptist Church
Puritan Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2371 Puritan Street in Detroit, MI 48238. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.
2371 Puritan Street, Detroit, MI, 48238Puritan Avenue 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 Puritan Avenue Baptist Church
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 live with obesity, and more than 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (22.3–53.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (5.1–25.2%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Puritan Avenue Baptist Church
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑀.𝐵.𝐶 — 0 mi away
- Church of Jesus Our Lord — 0.1 mi away
- Prayertime Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Northwest Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Northwest Church-God — 0.3 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Community Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Way Everlasting — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Twelfth Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory in Christ Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- New Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Truth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Highland Park, MI