First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2359 East 15th Street in New York, NY 11229. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
2359 East 15th Street, New York, NY, 11229Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
First 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 First 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 3,000 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (7.9–27.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Brooklyn Community Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brooklyn Alliance Church — 0.2 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Beth Shalom Youth — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Messiah's Congregation — 0.6 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Sheepshead Bay Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Builders Ministry — 0.6 mi away
- St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Kings Chapel — 1.2 mi away
- Christ Temple United Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Fellowship Baptist Church Of Coney Island — 2 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Bensonhurst Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Brooklyn, NY