First Corinthian Baptist Church
First Corinthian Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 671 Lafayette Avenue in New York, NY 11216. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
671 Lafayette Avenue, New York, NY, 11216Service times
- Thursday 12pm
- Sunday 10am
First Corinthian Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,466 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,419 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 Corinthian Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 4,800 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (15.6–34.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.4–13.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 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 Corinthian Baptist Church
- Church of Saint Ambrose — 0.1 mi away
- Jehova's Witness Kingdom Hall — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- People's Church of Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Brooklyn Tabernacle Deliverance Center — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal El Redil — 0.2 mi away
- Stuyvesant Heights Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal House Of Prayer Outreach Ministry — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lovely Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Little Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away