Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church
Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1538 West Wingohocking Street in Philadelphia, PA 19140. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bringing people to Jesus and membership in His family, developing them to Christ-like maturity, and equipping them for their ministry in the church and life mission in the world in order to magnify God's name.
1538 West Wingohocking Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140Greater Saint Matthew 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 Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 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: 84.0%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (24.4–51.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.3–11.2%)
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 Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church
- Christ the King Ukrainian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Maranatha Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word in Action International Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Redemption Church — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beloved St John Evangelistic — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant House of God — 0.2 mi away
- Way of the Cross Church-Christ — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Macedonia Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Inspirational Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Universal Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Truth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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