Watts Street Baptist Church
Watts Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 804 Watts Street in Durham, NC 27701. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 55 Baptist congregations in the city.
804 Watts Street, Durham, NC, 27701Website: http://www.wattsstreet.org/
Watts Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Watts Street 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (5.9–45.9%)
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.
Churches near Watts Street Baptist Church
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmaus Way Church — 0.5 mi away
- the Gathering Church — 0.5 mi away
- God's Annointed Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Triangle Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- Spearhead Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Grey Stone Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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