Upper Room Baptist Church

Upper Room Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New York, NY 11221. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.

New York, NY, 11221

Upper Room Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,465 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 Upper Room Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 4,900 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.9%
  • Social Isolation: 38.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.1% (12.3–33.9%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
  • Unemployment: 9.2% (3.1–15.3%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.4%

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.

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