Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 461 Decatur Street in New York, NY 11233. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
461 Decatur Street, New York, NY, 11233Union 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 — 71,420 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 Union 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 4,900 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: 29.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (13.6–29.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- New Dawning Fellowship — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Nazarene Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Waller Temple — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah St. Paul's Gospel Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehova's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Bethenia baptist church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Holy Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethenia baptist church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Universal Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- NYC 7th Day Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away