Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue in Elmira, NY 14904. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Elmira, NY, 14904Southside 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 Southside Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Child Poverty: 40.1% (21.6–58.9%)
- Unemployment: 13.3% (5.7–21.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (15.9–35.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near Southside Baptist Church
- Southside Alliance Christian & Missionary Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Elmira Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Riverside United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Elmira Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Elmira United Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Monumental Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Southport Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away