Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 210 South 5th Street, Reading, PA, 19602.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 11am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Reading, PA is a Baptist church. It is one of 6 Baptist congregations in Reading.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 210 South 5th Street in Reading, PA 19602. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.

210 South 5th Street, Reading, PA, 19602

Service times

Sunday 11am

Phone: (610) 375-2211 · Website: https://fbcreading.wixsite.com/fbcreadingpa

Shares a ministry location with Bridge to New Life Christian Fellowship.

First 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.

Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around First 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 half of 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: 57.6% (38.9–76.2%)
Obesity: 47.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.3%
Poverty Rate: 40.1% (28.2–52.0%)
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.8%
Diabetes: 20.7%
Unemployment: 14.4% (7.4–21.5%)
Depression: 24.0%

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

Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Bridge to New Life Christian Fellowship — 0 mi away
Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County — 0.1 mi away
El Portico Church — 0.1 mi away
Immanuel Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
Lighthouse Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
Iglesia Poder de Dios en Acción — 0.2 mi away
Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
Iglesia Hispana Pentecostal Asambleas de Dios — 0.2 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
Action Chapel Pennsylvania — 0.9 mi away in West Reading, PA
Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away

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