Metropolitian Baptist Church
Metropolitian Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3500 Baring Street in Philadelphia, PA 19104. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
3500 Baring Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104Metropolitian 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 — 71,420 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 Metropolitian 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 48.3% (30.0–66.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 47.2%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (5.5–20.8%)
- Depression: 29.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
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 Metropolitian Baptist Church
- Grace Church of Philly (Gathering Location) — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Monica — 0.1 mi away
- Embracing Truth Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Worship Center Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Covenant Church — 0.1 mi away
- Catalyst for Change Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word-Light Christian — 0.2 mi away
- Gate to Heaven Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt. Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Jude Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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