Fifty Ninth St Baptist Church
Fifty Ninth St Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philadelphia, PA 19143. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, PA, 19143Fifty Ninth St 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 Fifty Ninth St 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 a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,700 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (3.6–23.9%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Child Poverty: 32.4% (12.7–52.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (17.8–41.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), 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 Fifty Ninth St Baptist Church
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- Living Waters Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Word Of Life Healing Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Allen Ame Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life United Brethren Church (New Life UBC) — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of The Second Coming of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Land Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Land Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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