Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 159 Quail Street in Albany, NY 12203. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
159 Quail Street, Albany, NY, 12203Service times
- Sunday 10am
Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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 Morning Star 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. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Unemployment: 20.4% (9.9–30.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shrine Church of Our Lady of the Americas — 0.3 mi away
- All Nations Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Albany Friends Meeting House — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Sts. Mary & George Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes — 0.4 mi away
- Chinese Christian Church of Greater Albany — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Chapel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1 mi away