First Central Baptist Church
First Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 117 Wright Street in New York, NY 10304. It is one of 2,692 churches in New York, and one of 270 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Central Baptist Church of Staten Island, New York, USA has served as the mother church of Trinity Baptist Church since its founding.
117 Wright Street, New York, NY, 10304Service times
- Sunday 10am · Morning Worship
Website: http://www.firstcentralbaptistchurch.org/
First Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,462 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,352 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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Latest from First Central Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Look How Far God Has Brought Us. The reason for being thankful- Rev. Demetrius S. Carolina (11/1/26) (all videos).
The community around First Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 30.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Child Poverty: 35.2% (22.3–49.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (9.7–25.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
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- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
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