Gibson Temple Baptist Church
Gibson Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philadelphia, PA 19121. It is one of 1,763 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, PA, 19121Gibson Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Gibson Temple 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 74.8% (56.0–93.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (23.4–54.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Unemployment: 22.0% (10.7–33.4%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Gibson Temple Baptist Church
- Garden of Prayer World Prayer Center — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dauphin Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple of Jesus Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Nation Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Righteous Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away