New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 316 Union Street in Trenton, NJ 08611. It is one of 243 churches in Trenton, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
316 Union Street, Trenton, NJ, 08611New Salem 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 — 71,419 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 New Salem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 46.1%
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (22.9–57.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (5.4–21.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (0.1–15.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Trenton city is served by 155 churches — about one congregation for every 581 residents.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- WIND Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Emmanuel — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Profetica La Voz de Dios Vive — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Damasco — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Casa de Dios Pentecostes — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Alpha & Omega Casa de Dios — 0.3 mi away
- In Christ Jesus Deliverance Ministry — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Haitian Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trenton Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hope Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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