The Cathedral of Greater Free Gift Baptist Church
The Cathedral of Greater Free Gift Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 146 Stockton Street in New York, NY 11206. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
Under the leadership of Bishop Whitaker, Greater Free Gift is a church of education, celebration and support as well as spiritual elevation with the formation of the Fine Arts Ministry and “Serenity on Stockton Street.”
146 Stockton Street, New York, NY, 11206Phone: +1-718-782-9385 · Website: https://www.gfgbc.com/welcome
The Cathedral of Greater Free Gift 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.
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The community around The Cathedral of Greater Free Gift 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 6,000 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: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 37.7% (24.2–51.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Child Poverty: 36.2% (18.3–54.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (3.3–18.1%)
- Diabetes: 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.
Churches near The Cathedral of Greater Free Gift Baptist Church
- Greater Cross Roads Baptist — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- New Testament Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal El Redil — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Cathedral of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion Pentacostal Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- People's Church of Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Loving Heart Mission — 0.3 mi away
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