First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 119 John St in Princeton, NJ 08542-3130. It is one of 43 churches in Princeton, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
The purpose of the First Baptist Church of Princeton congregation is to give visible form to that faith and fellowship to which God has called His people.
First Baptist Church of Princeton was founded as the Bright Hope Baptist Church. It started as a prayer group in 1880 meeting in homes.
119 John St, Princeton, NJ, 08542-3130Service times
- Tuesday 7pm
Phone: (609) 924-0877 · Website: http://www.fbchurchprinceton.org/
First 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 — 71,418 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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Latest from First Baptist Church of Princeton's YouTube channel: A Homegoing Celebration for Susie Carolyn Johnson (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the people here were born in another country, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Ecclesia — 0.1 mi away
- Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nassau Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Nassau Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Princeton United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Princeton Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Penns Neck Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Second Calvary Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Hopewell Borough, NJ
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Hopewell, NJ
- Old School Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Hopewell, NJ
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