Cross of Calvary Baptist Church

Cross of Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philadelphia, PA 19121. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.

Philadelphia, PA, 19121

Cross of Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Cross of Calvary Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 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: 29.6% (15.5–43.6%)
  • Unemployment: 8.4% (3.5–13.3%)
  • Depression: 24.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 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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