Solomon Temple Baptist Church

Solomon Temple Baptist Church is a church at 602 W Erie Ave in Philadelphia, PA 19140-4431. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia.

602 W Erie Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19140-4431

Phone: (215) 223-1469

Solomon Temple 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 Solomon Temple 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 37.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 36.4% (22.0–50.8%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.2%
  • Diabetes: 20.5%
  • Obesity: 40.6%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (1.9–15.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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