Nazareth Baptist Church

Nazareth Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 490 E 165th St in New York, NY 10456-6609. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 96 Baptist congregations in the city.

Nazareth plays a vital role not only in the elderly community but throughout the entire community of the South Bronx serving the poor and needy through various programs funded by church members, state organizations and local proprietors.

490 E 165th St, New York, NY, 10456-6609

Phone: +17184011855 · Website: https://www.nazarethbcbx.org/

Nazareth 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 Nazareth Baptist Church

  • Food Distribution
  • Soup Kitchen
  • Back to School Events
  • Support for Rehabilitated Inmates

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The community around Nazareth 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. Nearly half 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 3,600 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: 47.8%
  • Social Isolation: 42.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 40.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.7% (20.8–50.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
  • Unemployment: 16.3% (10.4–22.1%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
  • Diabetes: 16.8%
  • Obesity: 39.0%
  • Child Poverty: 22.4% (6.6–38.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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