Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church
Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07112Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Abyssinia Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 37.2% (28.3–49.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (18.4–31.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (6.3–28.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.9–18.2%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church
- St. John's Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Neighbor Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elizabeth Avenue Weequahic United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triumph Church of the New Age — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Palm Garden Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory At Sunrise Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. John's Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Neighbor Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away