Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Pittsburgh, PA 15208. It is one of 613 churches in Pittsburgh, and one of 61 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pittsburgh, PA, 15208Saint James 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 Saint James 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 75.2%
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (22.2–50.2%)
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (7.7–22.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Pittsburgh city is served by 278 churches — about one congregation for every 1,092 residents.
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- Christ Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
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