Metropolitan Baptist church
Metropolitan Baptist church is a Baptist church at 149 Springfield Ave in Newark, NJ 07103. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
149 Springfield Ave, Newark, NJ, 07103Metropolitan 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 Metropolitan Baptist church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 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 about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (17.0–44.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.9–16.5%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist church
- Iglesia Universal Aurora — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Sanctuary USA — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary's Abbey Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Independent Church of God and Saints of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Paradise Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away