West-Side Baptist Church
West-Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2416 N. 54th Street in Philadelphia, PA 19131. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1992
2416 N. 54th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19131Website: https://wsbcphila.org/
West-Side 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 West-Side 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,500 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.
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.8–17.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.4–26.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near West-Side Baptist Church
- Pinn Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wynnefield United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Community Bible Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Wynnefield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel of St. Joseph — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Barbara's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Testament Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Overbrook Avenue Gospel Hall — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Holiness Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ — 0.5 mi away
- GPCC — 0.6 mi away in Bala Cynwyd, PA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pinn Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wynnefield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Word Church — 0.9 mi away
- Holy Cross Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Millennium Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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