Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 407 Union Street in Schenectady, NY 12305. It is one of 112 churches in Schenectady, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
407 Union Street, Schenectady, NY, 12305Website: http://friendshipbaptistchurchny.org/
Friendship 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 Friendship Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 25.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (9.4–28.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Schenectady city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,075 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seed of Abraham — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint George Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- CityReach Church Schenectady — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Macedonia Seventh Day Adventist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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