Wayland Memorial Baptist Church
Wayland Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5126 Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia, PA 19143. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
5126 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143Wayland Memorial 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 — 71,418 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 Wayland Memorial Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.7–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), 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 Wayland Memorial Baptist Church
- New Harvest Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- The Peoples Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Poyser Way New Testament Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Hickman Temple AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope for Philadelphia — 0.2 mi away
- Wharton Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Love Ministries Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.3 mi away
- God's Rescue Mission — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Peoples Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Concord Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Third NEI Baptist Missionary — 0.5 mi away
- Cookman Beloved Community Baptist — 0.5 mi away
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