Union Temple Baptist Church
Union Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2610 Howard Street in Philadelphia, PA 19134. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
2610 Howard Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19134Phone: (215) 739-4446
Union 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 — 71,419 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 Union Temple Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (17.3–44.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (5.0–18.0%)
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.6–18.8%)
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 Union Temple Baptist Church
- New Kingdom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostes Maranatha — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God Strawberry Mansion/Kensington — 0.2 mi away
- La Iglesia de Dios de la Profecia — 0.2 mi away
- Front St. Community Church COGOP — 0.2 mi away
- Visitation B.V.M. Church — 0.3 mi away
- La Iglesia De Dios, Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia M.I. Vida Santa — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia del Barrio — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Fuente de Vida — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Kingdom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Paul's Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
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