Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church
Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 340 Convent Avenue in New York, NY 10031. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church is located in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem at 340 Convent Avenue on the corner of 144th Street. Established in 1954, we are a small church with a big heart. Our doors are open to any and all who want to know more about Jesus Christ and serve Him to the fullest.
340 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031Service times
- Thursday 6:30pm · Evenings
Phone: +1 212 368 4754 · Website: http://greatertabernaclebc.org/
Greater Tabernacle 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.
Ministries at Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church
- Christian Education Ministry
- Bible Study and Prayer Service
- Community Outreach
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Latest from Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church, Harlem NY's YouTube channel: GTBC Morning Worship 12/21/2025 (all videos).
The community around Greater Tabernacle 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 6,400 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: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 26.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (13.5–34.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.6–11.5%)
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 Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church
- Convent Avenue Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Harlem — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, M.I. Exodo — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke's Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church of Harlem — 0.2 mi away
- Manhattan Holy Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
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