Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1719 Cascade Street in Erie, PA 16502. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
1719 Cascade Street, Erie, PA, 16502Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.9% (38.3–73.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 37.5% (24.2–50.7%)
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.0–19.3%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- El Calvario Fg Iglesia Bautista — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Church New Life — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Mount Zion — 0.2 mi away
- Erie Church Of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ In God — 0.3 mi away
- Superior Emmanuel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Odessa's Place — 0.4 mi away
- Erie Christian Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Gerizim Christian Center — 0.8 mi away
- First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Erie, PA — 0.8 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away