East Bethel Baptist Church
East Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1329 West Erie Avenue in Philadelphia, PA 19140. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.
1329 West Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19140East Bethel 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 East Bethel 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,600 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: 77.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (4.6–22.8%)
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (18.2–40.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near East Bethel Baptist Church
- Emmanuel's Temple Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- The Universal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church Of Philadelphia — 0.1 mi away
- Taylor Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Joy Temple Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Maranatha Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church of Nicetown — 0.2 mi away
- St Stephen's Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Voice of Praise Worldwide Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethany Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church Of Philadelphia — 0.1 mi away
- Taylor Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church of Nicetown — 0.2 mi away
- St Stephen's Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nazarene Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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