Greater Temple Baptist Church
Greater Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44320. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44320Greater Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 Greater Temple Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 53.0%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (18.5–40.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Greater Temple Baptist Church
- The Church On The Hill — 0 mi away
- House of the Lord — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wintergreen Ledges Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holiness Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St John Christian Methodist — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Church On The Hill — 0 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1 mi away