First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 265 West 79th Street in New York, NY 10024. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
265 West 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024Website: http://firstbaptist-nyc.org
Shares a ministry location with Apostles Uptown West and Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
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 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is 3,900 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: 33.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (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
- Redeemer Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Apostles Uptown West — 0 mi away
- All Angels Church — 0 mi away
- West End Collegiate Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church — 0.2 mi away
- St.Michael's Place Botanica — 0.2 mi away
- The Journey Church Upper West — 0.2 mi away
- St. Volodymyr Orthodox Cathedral — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church-religious Science — 0.2 mi away
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