Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5430 Pulaski Avenue in Philadelphia, PA 19144. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
5430 Pulaski Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19144Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · Service begins
Canaan 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 — 71,417 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 Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.5–33.8%)
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.3–14.8%)
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.6–17.9%)
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.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Faith Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Risen Christ Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Eagle's Nest Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Capacity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crown of Life Ministery-Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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