The First Chinese Baptist Church
The First Chinese Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 21 Pell Street in New York, NY 10013. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
21 Pell Street, New York, NY, 10013The First Chinese 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 The First Chinese 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 more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 5,600 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (13.0–33.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (2.9–13.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
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.
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- Chinese United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
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More Baptist churches nearby
- Mariners Temple — 0.1 mi away
- New York Chinese Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chinese Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Judson Memorial Church — 1.1 mi away