46th Street Baptist Church

46th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1261 South 46th Street in Philadelphia, PA 19143. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.

1261 South 46th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19143

Website: https://46thstreetbaptistchurch.org/

46th Street 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 — 71,418 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 46th Street Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 24.7% (14.2–35.3%)
  • Depression: 24.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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