Sharon Baptist Church
Sharon Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 827 Forest Avenue in New York, NY 10456. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
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827 Forest Avenue, New York, NY, 10456Sharon 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 — 71,417 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 Sharon Baptist Church
- Early Childhood Education
- Health and Nutrition Programs
- Social Services
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The community around Sharon 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. 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 5,000 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: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (22.7–47.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (6.6–22.4%)
- Child Poverty: 39.3% (20.4–58.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Obesity: 36.6%
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 Sharon Baptist Church
- Christ Church — 0.1 mi away
- Missionary Baptist Church Love — 0.1 mi away
- Flight To Freedom Worship Center, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- El Buen Camino Iglesia Cristiana — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Ghost Hour Church — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- New Jerusalem Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bronx Spanish Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spanish Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio De La Resurreccion — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Hephzibah Beulah Evangelical Ministry — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Victory Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thessalonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Eternal Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mars Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Bronx, NY